Where: France (49.7° N, 4.7° E: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 14.5° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Lumachelle à Ostrea acuminata Formation, Late/Upper Bajocian (171.6 - 167.7 Ma)
• Middle-Upper Bajocian, Humphriesianum or Garantiana zone
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified, sandy grainstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: mechanical,
Primary reference: G. Breton. 1997. Deux étoiles de mer du Bajocien du Nord-Ouest du Bassin de Paris (France) : leurs alliés actuels sont des fossiles vivants. Bulletin trimestriel de la Société géologique de Normandie et des Amis du Muséum du Havre 84(1):23-34 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 59773: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 11.04.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Asteroidea | |
? Persephonaster arduennensis n. sp. Breton 1997 sea star |