Vieux Beausset: Rhaetian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Dolopterus sp.
Reptilia
Termatosaurus sp. Plieninger 1844
unclassified
Crenilepis sandbergeri Dames 1888
Palaeonisciformes - Palaeoniscidae
Gyrolepis sp. Agassiz 1833
Gyrolepis quenstedti Dames 1888
Gyrolepis albertii Agassiz 1834
Palaeonisciformes - Birgeriidae
Birgeria acuminatus
Birgeria sp. Stensiö 1919
Actinopteri - Perleidiformes - Colobodontidae
Colobodus cf. hogardi Agassiz 1843
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes
Lepidotus sp. (Agassiz 1832)
original and current combination Lepidotes
Actinopteri - Semionotiformes - Semionotidae
Sargodon tomicus Plieninger 1847
Chondrichthyes
Chondrichthyes indet. Huxley 1880
Chondrichthyes - Synechodontiformes
Hybodus minor Agassiz 1837
recombined as Rhomphaiodon minor
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Polyacrodontidae
Polyacrodus minimus Agassiz 1939
Hybodus cloacinus Quenstedt 1858
recombined as Polyacrodus cloacinus
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur Region County:Var Departement
Coordinates: 43.2° North, 5.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.3° North, 10.8° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Late/Upper Triassic
Stage:Rhaetian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 4
*Period:Triassic - Triassic *Epoch:Late/Upper Triassic - Late/Upper Triassic
*International age/stage:Rhaetian - Rhaetian
Key time interval:Rhaetian
Age range of interval:208.50000 - 201.40000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Local bed:Bone-bed
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified calcareous conglomerate
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Disassociated major elements:many
Disassociated minor elements:many
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Vieux-Beausset
Database number:31772
Authorizer:E. Fara Enterer:E. Fara
Modifier:E. Fara Research group:vertebrate
Created:2003-05-25 07:30:14 Last modified:2003-05-25 10:30:16
Access level:database members Released:2003-05-25 07:30:14
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
8547.5% 49420G. Corroy. 1934. Les poissons et les reptiles du Muschelkalk et du Rhetien de Basse-Provence. Bulletin de la Societe geologique de France 3, serie 5(5-6):475-483 [E. Fara/E. Fara/E. Fara]