Arlon suburbs (Jurassic of Belgium)

Where: Luxembourg, Belgium (49.7° N, 5.8° E: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 11.0° E)

When: Virton Member (Luxembourg Formation), Late/Upper Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)

• l'ichthyosaure d'Arlon Station a été découvert "dans un banc durci de grès calcareux, . . . dans le faciès argilo-sableux du Grès de Virton" [=Virton Member of the Luxembourg Formation]

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous sandstone

• l'ichthyosaure d'Arlon Station a été découvert "dans un banc durci de grès calcareux, . . . dans le faciès argilo-sableux du Grès de Virton"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1894

Primary reference: L. Dollo. 1909. The fossil vertebrates of Belgium. Annals of the New York Academy of Science 19(4):99-119 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 188429: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 31.08.2017

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ichthyosauria - Ichthyosauridae
Ichthyosaurus communis Conybeare 1821 ichthyosaur