Nivollet-Montgriffon (Unit 3) (Jurassic of France)

Where: France (46.0° N, 5.5° E: paleocoordinates 36.1° N, 15.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Zigzag ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• Zigzag zone, Macrescens subzone

•0.3 m thick

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, ferruginous, shelly/skeletal, argillaceous limestone

• argillaceous biodetritic limestone, weathering into chips, with ferruginous spots

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. Mangold

• 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 170493: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 22.06.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Prionorhynchiidae
 Rhynchonellida - Acanthothirididae
Acanthothiris spinosa Linnaeus 1767
 Terebratulida - Loboidothyrididae
Rocheithyris curvata Alméras 1970
 Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae