Sainte-Colombe (Musée d'Auxerre coll) (Jurassic of France)

Where: France (47.6° N, 4.0° E: paleocoordinates 35.9° N, 13.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Harpoceras falciferum ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, nodular, black, yellow, argillaceous, carbonaceous marl

• Very shaly marls, bituminous, yellow or black

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, concretion

Collection methods: In Museum of Auxerre

Primary reference: S. Wenz. 1967. Compléments a l'étude des poissons actinoptérygiens du Jurassique français. Cahiers de Paléontologie 1967:1-276 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122735: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.01.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Ptycholepiformes - Ptycholepididae
Ptycholepis bollensis Agassiz 1832 ray-finned fish
Actinopteri
 Pachycormiformes - Pachycormidae
Saurostomus esocinus Agassiz 1833
"Pachycormus curtus" = Pachycormus macropterus de Blainville 1818