Where: France (48.7° N, 6.2° E: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 15.9° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Calcaires à Entroques Formation, Bajocian (170.3 - 168.3 Ma)
• Middle Bajocian, Humphriesianum zone
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, red, sandy grainstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: chemical, mechanical,
Primary reference: G. Breton. 1997. Deux étoiles de mer du Bajocien du Nord-Ouest du Bassin de Paris (France) : leurs alliés actuels sont des fossiles vivants. Bulletin trimestriel de la Société géologique de Normandie et des Amis du Muséum du Havre 84(1):23-34 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 59772: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 11.04.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Asteroidea | |
Comptoniaster sharpii Wright 1880 sea star |