Sauclieres tracksite (level I): Hettangian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Batrachopodidae
Batrachopus deweyi (Hitchcock 1843)
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% 17120G. 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]