Soultz-les-Bains (Grès argileux Mb.) (Triassic of France)

Where: Grand Est, France (48.6° N, 7.5° E: paleocoordinates 13.7° N, 18.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Grès argileux Member (Grès à Voltzia Formation), Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Geyer, et al. (2024) report age as upper Buntsandstein (but entering as lower Anisian) until PBDB updates using the outdated 1990 timescale.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; shale and sandstone

• Geyer, et al. (2024) report "brackish water ponds and small lakes"
• Geyer, et al. (2024) report "lenticular bodies of generally grey to pink, fine-grained feldspathic sandstone that are amalgamated in thick sandstone units" with fossils in shales of "Silty to clayey rocks in the succession"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Primary reference: E. Kittl. 1912. Materialen zu einer Monographie der Halobiidae und Monotidae der Trias [Monograph on the Halobiidae and Monotidae of the Triassic]. Resultate der Wissenschaftlichen Erforschung des Balatonsees, II Band: Paläontologie der Umgebung des Balatonsees 1(4):1-229 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 203355: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 13.08.2019, edited by Phil Novack-Gottshall

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Clytiopsidae
"Clytiopsis argentoratensis" = Clytiopsis argentoratense1
"Clytiopsis argentoratensis" = Clytiopsis argentoratense1 Bill 1914 decapod
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet.1 Latreille 1802 ostracod
Branchiopoda
 Notostraca -
Apudites antiquus2 Schimper 1853 tadpole shrimp
Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya elongata1 Schlotheim 1822 clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Homomya impressa1, "Posidonia albertii n. sp." = Homomya albertii
Homomya impressa1 Alberti 1864 clam
"Posidonia albertii n. sp." = Homomya albertii Volz 1837 clam
 Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
Myophoria vulgaris1 von Schlotheim 1820 clam
Gastropoda
 Ptenoglossa - Protoculidae
Undularia scalata1 von Schlotheim 1892 snail
 Neritoidea - Naticopsidae
Naticopsis gaillardoti1 Lefroy 1826 snail
 Murchisoniina - Loxonematidae
"Loxonema obsoletum" = Loxonema obsoleta1
"Loxonema obsoletum" = Loxonema obsoleta1 de Sowerby and Murchison 1839 snail
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
"Lingula tenuissima" = Lingularia tenuissima1
"Lingula tenuissima" = Lingularia tenuissima1 Bronn 1837
unclassified
  -
 Ichnofossils -
"Glossifungites sp." = Rhizocorallium1, Planolites montanus1
"Glossifungites sp." = Rhizocorallium1 Zenker 1836
Planolites montanus1 Richter 1937