Where: Franche-Comté, France (47.6° N, 5.7° E: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 15.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Callovian to Middle Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)
• unnamed beds, either Coronatum or Athleta Zone; Originally labeled as coming from the Minerai de Fer d'Autrey, but this is a Neogene bed
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; ferruginous, ooidal carbonate
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Collected by Lépine in 1846
• Original label signed "Don d'Auguste Lépine, 1846"
Primary reference: E. Buffetaut, G. Cuny, G. Lachkar, D. Contini, A. Pharisat and B. Vienet. 1995. Le fémur de dinosaure théropode du Musée d'Histoire naturelle de Gray (Haute-Sâone): identification, datation et essai de localisation de l'origine d'un fossile inhabituel [The theropod dinosaur femur from the Natural History Museum of Gray Haute-Sâone, France): identification, dating and determination of the geographic origin of an unusual fossil]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 166(1):69-75 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 142143: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.04.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Micrhystridium lymensis acritarchs
Micrhystridium sp. Deflandre 1937 acritarchs
Pterospermopsis sp. Wetzel 1952 acritarchs | |
Pteridopsida | |
Cyathidites minor Couper 1953
Deltoidospora toralis Lund 1977 | |
Alisporites | |
Alisporites sp. Daugherty 1941 | |
Cerebropollenites | |
Lycopodiopsida | |
Densoisporites fissus clubmoss
Densoisporites perinatus Brenner 1963 clubmoss | |
Retitriletes austroclavatidites Döring et al. 1963 clubmoss | |
Equisetopsida | |
Araucariacites australis Cookson 1947 | |
Callialasporites dampieri Balme 1957 podocarp
Callialasporites trilobatus Balme 1957 podocarp | |
Prasinophytae | |
Tasmanites sp. Newton 1875 | |
Reptilia | |
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Polychaeta | |
Dinophyceae | |
Ctenidodinium tenellum, Sentusidinium villersense, Tubotuberella apatella, Escharisphaeridia pocockii, Sirmiodinium grossii, Chytroeisphaeridia chytroeides, Sirmiodiniopsis orbis, Surculosphaeridium vestitum, Gonyaulacysta jurassica, Gonyaulacysta dualis
Ctenidodinium tenellum Deflandre 1938
Sirmiodinium grossii Alberti 1961
Chytroeisphaeridia chytroeides Sarjeant 1979
Gonyaulacysta jurassica Deflandre 1964
Gonyaulacysta dualis Stover and Evitt 1978 | |
Stephanelytron scarburghense Sarjeant 1961 | |
Nannoceratopsis pellucida Deflandre 1938 | |
Pareodinia ceratophora Deflandre 1947 |