Normandy HLF9 (Jurassic of France)

Where: Normandy, France (49.3° N, 0.1° W: paleocoordinates 40.0° N, 9.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: plicatilis zone, Argiles a Lopha gregarea Formation, Middle Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, burrowed, ferruginous claystone and siltstone

• ferruginous clay with thin layers of silt

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 Unpublished data.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 4911: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Franz Fursich on 29.08.1999, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Nubeculariidae
Nubeculinella sp. Cushman 1930
Bivalvia
 Pandorida - Laternulidae
Cercomya undulata Sowerby 1827 clam
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea dilatata oyster
Bilobissa
"Nanogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster
 Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
Actinostreon genuflectum oyster
[entered as Actinopstreon genuflectum]
Actinostreon gregareum Sowerby 1816 oyster
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
"Terebratula" sp. Müller 1776
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758
Dorsoserpula
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758
Cyloserpula
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Mecochiridae
Mecochirus sp. Germar 1827 decapod