Palaeontology of the Purbeck-type (Tithonian, Late Jurassic) bonebeds of Chassiron (Oléron Island, western France)

Romain Vullo; Dominique Abit; Michel Ballevre; Jean-Paul Billon-Bruyat; Renaud Bourgeais; Eric Buffetaut; Véronique Daviero-Gomez; Géraldine Garcia; Bernard Gomez; Jean-Michel Mazin; Séverin Morel; Didier Néraudeau; Joane Pouech; Jean-Claude Rage; Johann Schnyder; Haiyan Tonk

doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2014.03.003

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Palaeontology of the Purbeck-type (Tithonian, Late Jurassic) bonebeds of Chassiron (Oléron Island, western France)

Romain Vullo ¹ Dominique Abit Michel Ballevre ² Jean-Paul Billon-Bruyat ³ Renaud Bourgeais Eric Buffetaut ⁴ Véronique Daviero-Gomez ⁵ Géraldine Garcia ⁶ Bernard Gomez ⁷ Jean-Michel Mazin ⁸ Séverin Morel ¹ Didier Néraudeau ¹ Joane Pouech ⁹ Jean-Claude Rage ⁹ Johann Schnyder ¹⁰ Haiyan Tonk ¹¹

1 GR - Géosciences Rennes

2 Terre, Temps, Traçage

GR - Géosciences Rennes

3 Section d'Archéologie et Paléontologie, Office de la Culture

4 LGE - Laboratoire de géologie de l'ENS

5 LGL-TPE - Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement [Lyon]

6 IPHEP - Institut International de Paléoprimatologie, Paléontologie Humaine : Evolution et Paléoenvironnement

7 Paléoenvironnements

LGL-TPE - Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement [Lyon]

8 PEPS - PaleoEnvironnements et PaleobioSphere

9 CR2P - Centre de recherche sur la Paléobiodiversité et les Paléoenvironnements

10 iSTeP - Institut des Sciences de la Terre de Paris

11 Palaeontological Research and Education Centre

Abstract : The paralic flora and fauna from the Late Jurassic of Chassiron (Oléron Island, western France) are described. The Tithonian-aged bonebeds of Purbeck facies of this locality have yielded a rich and diverse vertebrate assemblage including fishes, amphibians, reptiles and mammals, alongside numerous plant and invertebrate remains. The Chassiron locality thus appears as a peculiar Konzentrat-Lagerstätte in which most of the palaeoecosystem's biological components (both aquatic and terrestrial) have been preserved. The depositional environment was probably subject to salinity fluctuations, as indicated by the co-occurrence of freshwater and euryhaline organisms. This is one of the richest localities and the first mammal-bearing site known from the Jurassic of France.

Keywords : France Jurassic Bonebeds Vertebrates Tithonian

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Sciences of the Universe [physics] / Earth Sciences

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