A European project such as the one to which the French Jura (General Council and National Forestry Commission) committed itself along with the Swiss Canton of Jura and the Fribourg Museum, is an opportunity to pool complementary skills and thus promote a unique palaeontological heritage.

In addition to the scientific studies of the dinosaur tracks site at Coisia, the travelling exhibition “Paleomania” and the creation of the “lejurassique.com” website, this transborder project has also enabled the production of the film “On the trail of the Jura dinosaurs”.

This 30-minute documentary links together the research on the dinosaur track sites carried out on both sides of the Franco-Swiss border. It means that a map of this cooperation on the theme of the Jura can be drawn up which could well prove to be crucial for the future of palaeontological research in Europe. Remarkable 3D pictures of the piecing together of these disappeared worlds complement the assessment made in the field by the teams of researchers in Coisia (France) and Courtedoux (Switzerland). The Swiss researchers are particularly interested in the discovery of new, smaller tracks that evoke the passage of a herd of dinosaurs… The film finishes with a symbolic meeting on the very promising new site of Loulle (France).


This trilingual film is the work of a Jura native, Jean-Luc Bouvret, author of numerous films about archaeology, ethnology and science, film that have won prizes in numerous international festivals.