Pissenavache (Jurassic of France)

Where: Franche-Comte, France (47.0° N, 6.3° E: paleocoordinates 37.9° N, 15.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

• Argovian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified marl and lithified limestone

• marls with small reefal lenses

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 93185: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.01.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Stylina sp.
Stylina sp. Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
Calamophylliopsis flabellum
Calamophylliopsis flabellum de Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Dimorpharaea koechlini, Microsolena fromenteli
Dimorpharaea koechlini Milne-Edwards and Haime 1860 stony coral
Microsolena fromenteli Koby 1887 stony coral