Where: Champagne-Ardenne, France (49.8° N, 4.4° E: paleocoordinates 39.8° N, 14.0° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Oolithe miliaire Formation, Early/Lower Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, ooidal, shelly/skeletal grainstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: J. -C. Fischer. 1969. Geologie, Paleontologie et Paleoecologie du Bathonien au sud-ouest du Massif Ardennais. Memoires du Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle, Nouvelle Serie, Serie C, Sciences de la terre 20:1-319 [R. Krause/R. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 96171: authorized by Rich Krause, entered by Rich Krause on 19.05.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Cavilucina orbignyana d'Archiac 1843 clam | |
Vaugonia detrita Terquem and Jourdy 1871 clam | |
Trigonia pullus Sowerby 1826 clam | |
Lithophaga fabella Eudes-Deslongchamps 1838 mussel | |
Lima hellica d'Orbigny 1850 file clam
Lima bognyensis Fischer 1969 file clam | |
Pteroperna asinusoides Fischer 1969 pearl oyster | |
Ostrea hebridica Forbes 1851 oyster
Ostrea acuminata Sowerby 1816 oyster
Lopha costata Sowerby 1825 oyster | |
Parallelodon hirsonensis d'Archiac 1843 clam |