Aranc (Jurassic of France)

Where: France (45.8° N, 4.8° E: paleocoordinates 35.9° N, 14.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Zigzag ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• Zigzag zone, Convergens subzone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, ferruginous, shelly/skeletal limestone

• shelly, ferruginous limestone containing a brachiopod coquina

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite, replaced with silica, coquina

Collection methods: 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 170018: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 11.06.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Prionorhynchiidae
 Rhynchonellida - Acanthothirididae
Acanthothiris spinosa Linnaeus 1767
 Terebratulida - Loboidothyrididae
Sphaeroidothyris lenthayensis Richardson and Walker 1907