Where: Luxembourg, Belgium (49.7° N, 5.8° E: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 11.0° E)
When: Virton Member (Luxembourg Formation), Late/Upper Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)
• l'ichthyosaure d'Arlon Station a été découvert "dans un banc durci de grès calcareux, . . . dans le faciès argilo-sableux du Grès de Virton" [=Virton Member of the Luxembourg Formation]
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1894
Primary reference: L. Dollo. 1909. The fossil vertebrates of Belgium. Annals of the New York Academy of Science 19(4):99-119 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 176256: authorized by Valentin Fischer, entered by Valentin Fischer on 04.02.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Ichthyosaurus platyodon" = Proteosaurus platyodon
"Ichthyosaurus platyodon" = Proteosaurus platyodon Conybeare 1822 ichthyosaur |