Where: Champagne-Ardenne, France (49.7° N, 4.6° E: paleocoordinates 39.7° N, 14.3° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Calcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs Formation, Middle Bathonian to Middle Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified marl and lithified chalk
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 96179: authorized by Rich Krause, entered by Rich Krause on 19.05.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Lithophaga fabella Eudes-Deslongchamps 1838 mussel | |
Lima bynei Cox and Arkell 1948 file clam
Lima hellica d'Orbigny 1850 file clam | |
Lopha costata Sowerby 1825 oyster | |
Parallelodon hirsonensis d'Archiac 1843 clam | |
Pterocardia pesbovis d'Archiac 1843 clam | |
Ceratomya striata Sowerby 1815 clam | |
Fimbria lajoyei d'Archiac 1843 clam
Cavilucina orbignyana d'Archiac 1843 clam
Mesolinga thierachensis Fischer 1969 clam |