Where: Haut-Rhin, France (47.5° N, 7.4° E: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 16.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Humeralis Mergel Formation, Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified marl
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
Primary reference: H. Hess. 1960. Ophiurenreste aus dem Malm des Schweizer Juras und des Departements Haut-Rhin. Eclogae geologicae Helvetiae 35(1):385-421 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 62062: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 11.07.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
Solanocrinus gresslyi Feather star | |
Apiocrinus meriani Sea lily | |
Ophiuroidea | |
Ophiothrix royeri de Loriol 1872 brittle star | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
"Ostrea bruntrutana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
"Ostrea bruntrutana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Zeilleria humeralis Roemer 1839 |