Where: Champagne-Ardenne, France (49.7° N, 4.4° E: paleocoordinates 39.7° N, 14.1° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Calcaires marneux inferieurs Formation, Late/Upper Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified marl
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: J. -C. Fischer. 1969. Geologie, Paleontologie et Paleoecologie du Bathonien au sud-ouest du Massif Ardennais. Memoires du Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle, Nouvelle Serie, Serie C, Sciences de la terre 20:1-319 [R. Krause/R. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 96182: authorized by Rich Krause, entered by Rich Krause on 19.05.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Mytilus tumidus Morris and Lycett 1853 mussel
Lithophaga fabella Eudes-Deslongchamps 1838 mussel | |
Ostrea wiltonensis Lycett 1863 oyster
Ostrea hebridica Forbes 1851 oyster
Ostrea ancliffensis Cox and Arkell 1948 oyster
Lopha costata Sowerby 1825 oyster | |
"Nanogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
"Nanogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster | |
Isognomon igsognomoides oyster | |
Pseudolimea duplicata Sowerby 1814 file clam | |
Meleagrinella echinata Smith 1819 scallop
Oxytoma costatum Townsend 1813 scallop | |
Chlamys rushdenensis, "Chlamys vagans" = Radulopecten vagans
Chlamys rushdenensis Lycett 1863 scallop
"Chlamys vagans" = Radulopecten vagans Sowerby 1826 scallop | |
Trigonia pullus Sowerby 1826 clam | |
Fimbria lajoyei d'Archiac 1843 clam | |
Homomya gibbosa Sowerby 1814 clam
Pholadomya lirata Sowerby 1818 clam
Pholadomya ovalis Sowerby 1819 clam | |
Thracia curtansata Morris and Lycett 1855 clam | |
Ceratomya striata Sowerby 1815 clam | |
Anisocardia globosa Bean 1839 clam
Anisocardia beaumonti d'Archiac 1843 clam |