Where: France (46.4° N, 5.9° E: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 15.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)
• From the "Spongitien" substage. According to Arkell (1933), the Spongitien is the spongiferous lower Argovian in the Jura (with the Argovian being equivalent to the Middle Oxfordian transversarium and possibly cordatum ammonite zones). Middle Oxfordian according to Enay et al. (1980)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. Étallon. 1859. Description des crustacés fossiles de la Haute-Saône et du Haut-Jura. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 16:169-205 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 226084: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.06.2022
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Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Prosopon (Pithonoton) gibbosum n. sp. Étallon 1859 crab |