La Verpillière (Isère, Bifrons zone) (Jurassic to of France)

Where: France (45.6° N, 5.1° E: paleocoordinates 34.4° N, 15.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bifrons to Bifrons (182.0 - 175.6 Ma)

• Bifrons zone sensu Dumortier, now middle to lower upper Toarcian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E. Dumortier

• Repository: Musée Guimet

Primary reference: Y. Alméras. 1996. Les brachiopodes toarciens et aaléniens inférieurs du bassin du Rhône, paléontologie et biostratigraphie, révision de la collection Dumortier et compléments. Documents des Laboratoires de Géologie Lyon 138:1-123 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 150353: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.09.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Basiliolidae
Pseudogibbirhynchia sp. Ager 1962
cf. Pseudogibbirhynchia nov. sp. Garcia-Joral and Goy 1984; ID as R. subtetraedra in Dumortier
Pseudogibbirhynchia jurensis Quenstedt 1858
Rhynchonella forbesi, R. subtetraedra, and R. bouchardi in Dumortier
 Rhynchonellida - Prionorhynchiidae
Prionorhynchia msougari Rousselle 1973
R. forbesi in Dumortier
 Rhynchonellida - Norellidae
 Terebratulida - Postepithyrididae
"Terebratula millenaria n. sp." = Ferrythyris millenaria
"Terebratula millenaria n. sp." = Ferrythyris millenaria Dumortier 1874
Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Cenoceratidae
"Nautilus terebratus n. sp." = Digonioceras terebratum, "Nautilus jourdani n. sp." = Cenoceras jourdani, Cenoceras ciryi, Cenoceras belmontense
"Nautilus terebratus n. sp." = Digonioceras terebratum Dumortier 1874 nautiloid
"Nautilus jourdani n. sp." = Cenoceras jourdani Dumortier 1874 nautiloid
Cenoceras ciryi Rulleau 2008 nautiloid
Cenoceras belmontense Rulleau 2008 nautiloid
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
"Cenoceras globulus n. sp." = Ligeiceras globulus
"Cenoceras globulus n. sp." = Ligeiceras globulus Rulleau 2008 nautiloid