Asteroidea, Lumachelle à Acuminata, Ardennes (Jurassic of France)

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

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Taxonomic list

Asteroidea
 Paxillosida - Astropectinidae
? Persephonaster arduennensis n. sp. Breton 1997 sea star