Normandy HLC8 (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: unlithified, pyritic, shelly/skeletal, gray marl

• grey shelly marl with pyite concretions near top

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 Unpublished data.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 4924: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Franz Fursich on 30.08.1999, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Nubeculariidae
Nubeculinella sp. Cushman 1930
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Nanogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster
Gryphaea dilatata oyster
Bilobissa
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Palaeonucula sp. Quenstedt 1930 nut clam
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
"Terebratula" sp. Müller 1776
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
ctenostome
Stenolaemata
 Cyclostomata - Stomatoporidae
Stomatopora dichotoma Lamoureux 1821
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758
Dorsoserpula
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758
Cycloserpula
Serpula intestinalis Gmelin 1791
Cycloserpula