Normandy BV1 (Jurassic of France)

Where: Normandy, France (49.3° N, 0.0° E: paleocoordinates 40.0° N, 9.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: parandieri zone, Coral Rag de Trouville Formation, Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• loose boulder on beach

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

• coral reef; mainly thin sheets of thamnasteria in a micritic matrix

Preservation: original calcite, replaced with calcite

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

Primary reference: F. T. Fürsich. 1999. Unpublished data. [F. Fursich/F. Fursich/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 4851: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Franz Fursich on 25.08.1999, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Cidaris sp. Leske 1778 pencil urchin
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
"Terebratula" sp. Müller 1776
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758
Cycloserpula
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Nerinellidae
Nerinella sp. Sharpe 1849 snail
 Pleurotomarioidea - Pleurotomariidae
Obornella sp. Cox 1959 snail
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
Ampullina sp. Férussac 1822 snail
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Lithophaga inclusa Phillips 1829 mussel
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys textoria Schlotheim 1820 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Nanogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster
Liostrea sp. Douvillé 1904 oyster
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Grammatodon concinnus Phillips 1829 clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina rotundata Roemer 1835 clam
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae
Thamnasteria sp. LeSauvage 1823 stony coral