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Clastic deposits related to alluvial and estuarine environments sedimented during the early Liassic in the Veillon area (south of Talmont-Saint-Hilaire, Vendée, France). A reptile fauna including various taxa, just known by innumerable footprints, lived in that environment, in rather hot and dry climatic conditions.
In the inter/supratidal algal mats, the early diagenesis products a progressive induration. It is enough to preserve all the deformations affecting the mats, including footprints of vertebrates, tracks and burrows of small invertebrates, and physical actions (desiccation cracks).