Where: Champagne-Ardenne, France (49.6° N, 5.0° E: paleocoordinates 39.6° N, 14.5° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Oolithe miliaire Formation, Early/Lower Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, ooidal, shelly/skeletal grainstone
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 96183: authorized by Rich Krause, entered by Rich Krause on 19.05.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Lithophaga fabella Eudes-Deslongchamps 1838 mussel | |
Ostrea acuminata Sowerby 1816 oyster
Ostrea hebridica Forbes 1851 oyster
Lopha costata Sowerby 1825 oyster |