- journal_title：Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France
- Contributor：J.-Sébastien Steyer ; Sophie Sanchez ; Pierre J. Debriette ; Andrea M.F. Valli ; François Escuille ; Burkhard Pohl ; Roger-Paul Dechambre ; Renaud Vacant ; Christopher Spence ; Gaël de Ploëg
- Publisher：Societe Geologique de France
- Date：2012-12-01
- Format：text/html
- Language：en
- Identifier：10.2113/gssgfbull.183.6.509
- journal_abbrev：Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France
- issn：0037-9409
- volume：183
- issue：6
- firstpage：509
- section：Articles
A new vertebrate locality from the Lower Permian (Cisuralian) of the Bourbon-l'Archambault basin (Massif Central, France) is reported and its associated flora and fauna preliminarily described. This locality corresponds to a mass mortality assemblage deposited in an aquatic environment. Interestingly, it has yielded hundreds of exceptionally well preserved seymouriamorph specimens, all referred to Discosauriscus austriacus. This exquisite assemblage corresponds to the first seymouriamorph Lagerstätte and the first record of D. austriacus outside the Boskovice basin in Czechia. It enlarges the geographical distribution of the species during the Early Permian, and has new palaeoenvironmental implications regarding the Palaeozoic Bourbon-l'Archambault basin.