Sample X, Marnes de Latrecey, Latrecey, Haute-Marne (Jurassic of France)

Where: France (48.0° N, 4.9° E: paleocoordinates 38.9° N, 14.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Marnes de Latrecey Formation, Middle Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified mudstone and poorly lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), chemical, mechanical,

Primary reference: P. Courville and L. Villier. 2003. L'Oxfordien moyen et supérieur de l'Est du Bassin Parisien (France). L'exemple de Latrecey (Haute-Marne): aspects fauniques, paléoenvironnementaux et stratigraphiques. Revue de Paléobiologie 22(1):175-196 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 62715: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 26.07.2006

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Dichotomoceras stenocycloides Siemiradzki 1898 ammonite
 Belemnitida - Hastitidae
Hastites sp. Meyer-Eymar 1883 belemnite
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra sp. Say 1820 oyster
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Acanthothirididae
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
Asteroidea
 Valvatida - Stauranderasteridae
 Valvatida - Goniasteridae
Tylasteria prisca Valette 1928 sea star
Crinoidea
 Isocrinida - Isocrinidae