Sauclieres tracksite (level I): Hettangian, France
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Batrachopodidae
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Batrachopus deweyi
(Hitchcock 1843)
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | France | State/province: | Region Midi-Pyrenees | County: | Aveyron |
Coordinates: | 44.0° North, 3.4° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 32.0° North, 8.5° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Early/Lower Jurassic |
Stage: | Hettangian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 1 |
*Period: | Early/Lower Jurassic - Early/Lower Jurassic | *Epoch: | Early/Lower Lias - Early/Lower Lias |
*International age/stage: | Hettangian - Hettangian | ||
Key time interval: | Hettangian | ||
Age range of interval: | 201.40000 - 199.50000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Local section: | Sauclières | Local bed: | 1 | ||
Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: The facies of this collection corresponds to the 'dolomie cubique de l'Hettangien des Causses' |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lithified calcareous dolomite |
Secondary lithology: | lithified cherty/siliceous dolomite |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: a bumpy/lumpy dolomite bed overlain by a dolomite bed with cherty nodules | |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | mold/impression,trace |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Spatial orientation: | life position |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (in situ),observed (not collected) |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Taxonomic list comments:Ichnotaxa |
Metadata
Also known as: | Causse du Larzac, Aveyron, Grands Causses | ||
Database number: | 31306 | ||
Authorizer: | E. Fara | Enterer: | E. Fara |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2003-05-06 08:07:33 | Last modified: | 2019-11-26 09:46:02 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-05-06 08:07:33 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
8442. | 5% 17120 | G. R. Demathieu and J. Sciau. 1992. Des pistes de dinosaures et de crocodiliens dans les dolomies de l'Hettangien du Causse du Larzac [Dinosaur and crocodilian trackways in the Hettangian dolomites of the Larzac Causse]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, Série II 315:1561-1566 [E. Fara/E. Fara/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
70332 | G. Demathieu, G. Gand, J. Sciau, P. Freytet, and J. Garric. 2002. Les traces de pas de dinosaures et autres archosaures du Lias inferieur des Grands Causses, Sud de la France [The footprints of dinosaurs and other archosaurs from the lower Lias of the Grands Causses, South of France]. Palaeovertebrata 31(1–4):1-143 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
63940 | J.-D. Moreau, E. Fara, D. Néraudeau and G. Gand. 2019. New Hettangian tracks from the Causses Basin (Lozère, southern France) complement the poor fossil record of earliest Jurassic crocodylomorphs in Europe. Historical Biology 31(3):341-352 [M. Uhen/M. Smith/M. Carrano] |