Ile Crémieu, Pseudomelania facies, France (Jurassic of France)

Also known as Reef 2426

Where: France (45.7° N, 5.3° E: paleocoordinates 35.4° N, 15.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Bajocian (170.3 - 168.3 Ma)

• Laterally equivalent to upper reef level

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, bioturbated limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. Lathuilière. 1982. Bioconstructions bajociennes à madréporaires et faciès associés dans l'Ile Crémieu (Jura du Sud; France). Géobios 15:491-504 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 34716: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 17.09.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes sp. Meek 1864 scallop
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop
Cephalopoda
 Nautiloidea -
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid
 Belemnoidea -
Belemnitida indet. Zittel 1895 belemnite
Gastropoda
 Pseudomelanoidea - Pseudomelaniidae
Pseudomelania sp. Pictet and Campiche 1862 snail
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Nubeculariidae