Porrentruy (Ajoie): Early/Lower Kimmeridgian, Switzerland
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Rhynchonellata
- Terebratulida
- Postepithyrididae
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Sellithyris subsella
(Leymerie 1846)
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300 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Loboidothyris subsella | ||||||||||
| about 300 specimens (8 measurements) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Switzerland | State/province: | Jura |
| Coordinates: | 47.4° North, 7.0° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 38.4° North, 15.9° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
| Stage: | Kimmeridgian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Kimmeridgian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 154.80000 - 152.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Reuchenette | Member: | Banné |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | nodular,shelly/skeletal poorly lithified sandy,calcareous marl |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: The slightly nodular Banné Marls comprise grey dm-thick layers of marlstones, calcarenitic marls and marly limestones with a rich fauna of bivalves associated with some brachiopods...Shelly and calcarenitic horizons, probably reworked and winnowed by storms, are intercalated and commonly separate the beds. | |
| Environment: | lagoonal |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Repository: Palaeontological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich (PIMUZ) | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 157235 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Manojlovic |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2014-06-10 02:36:58 | Last modified: | 2021-04-22 15:02:06 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-06-10 02:36:58 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 51621. | H. Sulser and C. Meyer. 1998. Taxonomy and paleoecology of terebratulid brachiopods (Sellithyris subsella-group) from the Late Jurassic of northwestern Switzerland. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 91(3):439-451 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic] |