Mecrin (Jurassic of France)

Where: Lorraine, France (48.8° N, 5.5° E: paleocoordinates 39.7° N, 14.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

• Upper Argovian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• oolitic limestone

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 93187: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.01.2010

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Microsolena mosensis n. sp. Beauvais 1964 stony coral