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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Ophiuroidea | |
Ophiopetra lithographica n. gen. n. sp.
Ophiopetra lithographica n. gen. n. sp. Enay and Hess 1962 brittle star |