Ophiuroida, Upper Kimmeridgian, Abergement, Southern French Jura , Ain (Jurassic of France)

Where: France (46.0° N, 5.7° E: paleocoordinates 37.0° N, 14.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• lithographic limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with calcite

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

Primary reference: R. Enay and H. Hess. 1962. Sur la découvertes d'Ophiures (Ophiopetra lithographica n.g.n.sp.) dans le Jurassique supérieur du Haut-Valromey (Jura méridional). Eclogae geologicae Helvetiae 55(2):657-678 [L. Villier/J. Millet/J. Millet]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 58659: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Julien Millet on 17.02.2006

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Taxonomic list

Ophiuroidea
 Ophiurida - Aplocomidae
Ophiopetra lithographica n. gen. n. sp.
Ophiopetra lithographica n. gen. n. sp. Enay and Hess 1962 brittle star