Le Monsard Quarry (Jurassic of France)

Where: France (46.3° N, 4.7° E: paleocoordinates 35.9° N, 15.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Niortense ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Bajocian (171.6 - 167.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

• limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: recrystallized, original calcite, replaced with silica

Collected by Y. Almeras, Lissajous, Arcelin, Roche

• Repository: Département des Sciences de la Terre de la Faculté des Sciences

Primary reference: Y. Alméras. 1970. Les terebratulidae du Dogger dans le Mâconnais, le mont d'Or lyonnais et le Jura méridional: Étude systématique et biostratigraphique. Rapports avec la paléoécologie. Documents des Laboratories de Géologie de la Faculté des Sciences de Lyon 39(2):1-690 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 169973: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 08.06.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
"Rhynchonella palmaeformis" = Lacunaerhynchia palmaeformis
"Rhynchonella palmaeformis" = Lacunaerhynchia palmaeformis Lissajous 1936
 Rhynchonellida - Prionorhynchiidae
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Rhynchonella "sp. B" Fischer 1809
Rhynchonella sp. B (Arcelin and Roche 1936)
Rhynchonella langleti Chapuis and Dewalque 1853
 Rhynchonellida - Acanthothirididae
Acanthothiris spinosa Linnaeus 1767
 Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
"Zeilleria subbucculenta" = Rugitela subbucculenta, Zeilleria waltoni
"Zeilleria subbucculenta" = Rugitela subbucculenta Chapuis and Dewalque 1852
Zeilleria waltoni Davidson 1851
 Terebratulida - Lissajousithyrididae
Morrisithyris phillipsiana Walker and Davidson 1878
Morrisithyris latifrons Bayle 1878
includes specimens of Morrisithyris latifrons sublatifrons (8 specimens)
Morrisithyris davidsoni n. sp. Alméras 1970
"Gigantothyris omalogastyr" = Strongylobrochus omalogastyr Zieten 1830
Monsardithyris buckmaniana Walker and Davidson 1878
Arcelinithyris arcelini Lissajous 1936
 Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
Lobothyris romani Arcelin and Roche 1936
Lobothyris pseudocrithea Arcelin and Roche 1936
 Terebratulida - Loboidothyrididae
 Terebratulida - Postepithyrididae
Gigantothyris blanda Seifert 1963