Normandy MCIII (Jurassic of France)

Where: France (48.6° N, 0.6° E: paleocoordinates 39.3° N, 10.4° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, burrowed, shelly/skeletal lime mudstone

• bedded micrite full of shell debris, occasionally remains of planar crossbedding; shells arranged in layers

Size class: macrofossils

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 Unpublished data.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 4855: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Franz Fursich on 25.08.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Cidaris sp. Leske 1778 pencil urchin
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
ctenostome
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Grammatodon concinnus Phillips 1829 clam
[entered as Grammotodon concinnus]
 Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
"Actinostreon gregareum" = Actinostreon gregareum, "Actinostreon solitarium" = Actinostreon gregareum
"Actinostreon gregareum" = Actinostreon gregareum Sowerby 1816 oyster
"Actinostreon solitarium" = Actinostreon gregareum Sowerby 1816 oyster
[entered as Actinostrteon solitarium]
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Liostrea sp. Douvillé 1904 oyster
"Nanogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster
 Pectinida - Limidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Radulopecten fibrosus Sowerby 1816 scallop