Bressaucourt (Jurassic of Switzerland)

Where: Switzerland (47.4° N, 7.0° E: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 16.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

• Sequanian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Beauvais. 1964. Etude stratigraphique et paleontologique des formations a madreporaires du Jurassique superieur du Jura et de l'est du Basin de Paris. Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France 100:1-288 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93094: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.01.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Thecosmilia annularis Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
Thecosmilia furcata Koby 1884 stony coral
Thecosmilia magna Etallon 1864 stony coral
Isastrea bernensis Etallon 1864 stony coral
Isastrea gresslyi Etallon 1862 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Amphiastreidae
Donacosmilia thurmanni n. sp. Beauvais 1964 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Solenocoeniidae
"Adelocoenia semiradiata" = Solenocoenia semiradiata
"Adelocoenia semiradiata" = Solenocoenia semiradiata Etallon 1864 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Stylina tenax, Stylina stellata, "Cryptocoenia michelini" = Adelocoenia limbata
Stylina tenax Etallon and Thurmann 1864 stony coral
Stylina stellata Etallon 1862 stony coral
"Cryptocoenia michelini" = Adelocoenia limbata Goldfuss 1829 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Thamnoseris frotei Etallon 1862 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
"Adelocoenia minima" = Etallonasteria minima
"Adelocoenia minima" = Etallonasteria minima Etallon 1864 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
"Isastrea favulus" = Columactinastraea favulus
"Isastrea favulus" = Columactinastraea favulus Thurmann 1864 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pachyphylliidae
Columnocoenia ablensis Etallon 1862 stony coral