Elmi's reef, Aubenas, Ardeche (Jurassic to of France)

Also known as Reef 2476

Where: France (44.6° N, 4.4° E: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 9.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Calcaires noduleux cendres Formation, Planorbis to Planorbis (201.3 - 196.5 Ma)

• Early Hettangian Planorbis to Liasicus zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified framestone and lithified floatstone

• Below fair-weather wave base, above storm wave-base
• 20 m thick coral reef

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with calcite, replaced with dolomite

Reposited in the MfN

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: W. Kiessling, E. Roniewicz, L. Villier, P. Leonide, and U. Struck. 2009. An early Hettangian coral reef in southern France: Implications for the end-Triassic reef crisis. Palaios 24 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/S. Bruning]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90243: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 15.07.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Quantitative data for corals only
Echinoidea
 Pedinoida - Pedinidae
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma sp. Sowerby 1814 file clam
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
Chondrocoenia reptans Duncan 1867 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pamiroseriidae
Rhaetiastraea sp. Roniewicz 1974 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylophyllidae
Phacelostylophyllum sp. Melnikova 1972 stony coral
sp. A
Phacelostylophyllum cf. michelini Terquem and Piette 1865 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Oppelismiliidae
Phacelophyllia cf. moorei Duncan 1867 stony coral
Phacelophyllia suttonensis Duncan 1867 stony coral
Foraminifera
 Lagenina - Ichthyolariidae
Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Lagena sp. Walker and Boys 1784
Foraminifera
 Involutinina - Trocholinidae
Trocholina sp. Paalzow 1922
 Ichnofossils -
Gastrochaenolites sp. Leymerie 1842
Trypanites sp. Mägdefrau 1932