Causses (Rivière sur Tarn section) RsT-To 8 (Jurassic of France)
Where: France (44.3° N, 3.3° E: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 14.7° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Toarcian (182.7 - 174.1 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified marl
• Mid to lower shelf settings. Dark-gray fine-grained sediment point to high rates of sedimentation, high turbidity, intermittently lowered oygen values and soft to soupy substrate conditions.
• Argillaceous-marly sediments. Fossils were collected from marls.
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. Berndt. 1998. Das Makrobenthos der Causses (Südfrankreich): Palökologie einer mittel- bis oberliassischen Mergelfolge. [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 210800: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 19.06.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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Paroniceras sternale d'Orbigny 1845 ammonite | |