Chargey-les-Port, Bioherm R4, Franche-Compté (Jurassic of France)

Also known as Reef 3449

Where: France (47.7° N, 6.0° E: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 15.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Calcaire à polypier de Frotey Formation, Early/Lower Bajocian (171.6 - 168.4 Ma)

• Humphriesianum subzone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

• small bioherms, 2-3 m large and 1.5 m thick
• corals: 61% of the reef volume, sediments: 20%, microbialites: 14%

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: N. Olivier, B. Lathuiliere, and P. Thiry-Bastien. 2006. Growth models of Bajocian coral-microbialite reefs of Chargey-les-Port (eastern France): palaeoenvironmental interpretations. Facies 52:113-127 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 66950: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.10.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae
Thamnasteria mettensis
Thamnasteria mettensis Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Dendraraea dendroidea
Dendraraea dendroidea Ferry 1861 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Periseris elegantula
Periseris elegantula d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Isastrea bernardiana, Complexastrea zolleriana
Isastrea bernardiana d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral
Complexastrea zolleriana Quenstedt 1858 stony coral
Complexastrea morphogenus zolleriana morph major