Mont d'Or lyonnais (Saint-Romain) (Jurassic to of France)

Where: France (45.8° N, 4.8° E: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 15.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bifrons to Bifrons (182.0 - 175.6 Ma)

• Bifrons zone sensu Dumortier, now middle to lower upper Toarcian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E. Dumortier

• Repository: Musée Guimet

Primary reference: Y. Alméras. 1996. Les brachiopodes toarciens et aaléniens inférieurs du bassin du Rhône, paléontologie et biostratigraphie, révision de la collection Dumortier et compléments. Documents des Laboratoires de Géologie Lyon 138:1-123 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 150352: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.09.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Basiliolidae
Pseudogibbirhynchia jurensis Quenstedt 1858
Rhynchonella forbesi in Dumortier
 Rhynchonellida - Norellidae
 Rhynchonellida - Prionorhynchiidae
Prionorhynchia msougari Rousselle 1973
ID as R. plicatella by Dumortier