Also known as Reef 588

Where: France (45.8° N, 5.5° E: paleocoordinates 36.7° N, 14.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Calcaires Lites Formation, Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• Bimammatum zone

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: C. Gaillard. 1971. Les formations a spongiaires des Calcaires Lites (Oxfordien Superieur du Jura meridional) [The sponge formations of the Calcaires Lites (Upper Oxfordian of the southern Jura)]. Documents des Laboratoires de Geologie de la Faculte des Sciences de Lyon 45:19-130 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67975: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.12.2006

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