Falaise de Langrune, Lucerne (Jurassic of France)

Where: France (48.8° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 38.3° N, 9.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Aulacosphinctes hollandi ammonoid zone, Great Oolite Group, Bathonian (168.3 - 166.1 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Great Oolite, for which lithostratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Bathonian in text; justification not given for age assignment. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within local section. Probably la Caillasse de la Basse-Ecarde Formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Limestone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of facies description.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• .COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Originally in the Eudes-Deslongchamps coll.; presently lost

Primary reference: A. G. Smith. 1973. Fossil chitons from the Mesozoic - A checklist and bibliography. Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences 103:1-30 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 91221: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 11.09.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in text. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with species-resolution identifications and relatively modern nomenclature.
Polyplacophora
 Chitonida - Chitonidae
"Chiton" koninckii Eudes-Deslongchamps 1849 chiton