Saint-Point (Jurassic of France)

Where: France (46.3° N, 4.6° E: paleocoordinates 35.9° N, 15.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Garantiana garanti ammonoid zone, Garantiana (171.6 - 167.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• limestone with silicified brachiopods

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite, replaced with silica

Collection methods: Repository: Département des Sciences de la Terre de la Faculté des Sciences

Primary reference: Y. Alméras. 1970. Les terebratulidae du Dogger dans le Mâconnais, le mont d'Or lyonnais et le Jura méridional: Étude systématique et biostratigraphique. Rapports avec la paléoécologie. Documents des Laboratories de Géologie de la Faculté des Sciences de Lyon 39(2):1-690 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 169997: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 09.06.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Lissajousithyrididae
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae