Where: France (46.4° N, 5.6° E: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 14.9° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: bifurcatus ammonoid zone, Argovian Group, Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)
• Lower Late Oxfordian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, calcareous claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
Primary reference: H. Hess. 1966. Mikropaläontologische Untersuchungen an Ophiuren. V. Die Ophiuren aus dem Argovien (unteres Ober-Oxford) von Guldenthal (Kt. Solothurn) und von Savigna (Dépt. Jura). Eclogae geologicae Helvetiae 59(2):1025-1063 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 61724: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 24.06.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Tubothalamea | |
Nodosariata | |
Foraminifera | |
Reophax sp. de Montfort 1808 | |
Tolypammina sp. Rhumbler 1895 | |
Ophthalmidium sp. Kübler and Zwingli 1870 | |
Ophiuroidea | |
Sinosura wolburgi Hess 1960 brittle star 82 lateral plates, 92 vertebae, 4 dorsal plates, 20 ventral plates
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? Ophioderma spectabilis n. sp.
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Asteroidea | |
Terminaster cancriformis Quenstedt 1876 sea star | |
Goniasteridae indet. Forbes 1841 sea star
Tylasteria jurensis Goldfuss 1833 sea star
Noviaster sp. Valette 1929 sea star
Hessaster longimarginalis Gale 2011 sea star | |
"Pentasteria (Pentasteria) longispina" = Pentasteria (Archastropecten) longispina
"Pentasteria (Pentasteria) longispina" = Pentasteria (Archastropecten) longispina Hess 1968 sea star | |
Chrispaulia jurassica Gale 2011 sea star | |
Jurapecten hessi Gale 2011 sea star | |
Savignasterias villieri Gale 2011 sea star | |
Savignaster wardi Gale 2011 sea star | |
Plumaster sp. Wright 1863 sea star | |
Ostracoda | |
Cytherella woltersdorfi ostracod | |
Paracypris acris ostracod
Paracypris sp. Sars 1866 ostracod | |
Pontocyprella suprajurassica Oertli 1959 ostracod | |
Schuleridea cf. triebeli ostracod | |
Monoceratina cf. stimulea ostracod
Monoceratina sp. Roth 1928 ostracod | |
Cytherura ? liesbergensis ostracod |