St. Albain, brachiopods (Jurassic of France)

Also known as Reef 2795

Where: Bourgogne, France (46.4° N, 4.9° E: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 15.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Bajocian (171.6 - 168.4 Ma)

• Humphriesianum zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified wackestone and lithified packstone

• lower parts of the coral reefs, in fairly deeper biotopes, before the coral settlement
• biomicrite and biomicrosparite rich in sponges, and echinoids, bivalves, gastropods, bryozoans

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Y. Almeras and B. Lathuiliere. 1984. Paleontologie et paleoecologie de Parvirhynchia parvula (Deslongchamps), brachiopode recifal et perirecifal du Bajocien moyen [Paleontology and paleoecology of Parvirhynchia parvula (Deslongchamps), a Middle Bajocian reefal and perireefal brachiopod]. Geobios 17(6):797-822 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93296: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.01.2010, edited by Marko Manojlovic

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
Parvirhynchia parvula Deslongchamps 1862
"Rhynchonella palmaeformis" = Lacunaerhynchia palmaeformis Lissajous 1936
Septulirhynchia davidi Almeras 1966
 Rhynchonellida - Prionorhynchiidae
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Rhynchonella edwardsi Chapuis and Dewalque 1853
Rhynchonella kirchhoferi Haas and Petri 1881
Rhynchonella langleti Chapuis and Dewalque 1853
 Rhynchonellida - Acanthothirididae
Acanthothiris spinosa Linnaeus 1767
 Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
Zeilleria waltoni Davidson 1851
 Terebratulida - Lissajousithyrididae
Morrisithyris sp. Alméras 1970