Chirats point reef: Early/Lower Kimmeridgian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Nodosariata - Polymorphinida - Polymorphinidae
Bullopora sp. Quenstedt 1856
Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Nubeculariidae
Nubecularia sp.
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae
Thamnasteria sp. LeSauvage 1823
3 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Stylosmilia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
6 specimens
Stylina sp. Lamarck 1816
2 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
Calamophylliopsis sp. Alloiteau 1952
21 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Microsolenidae indet. Koby 1890
25 specimens
Hydrozoa - Nigriporellidae
Tubiphytes sp. Maslov 1956
Hexactinellida
Hexactinellida indet. Schmidt 1870
Calcarea
Calcarea indet. Bowerbank 1864
Crinoidea - Isocrinida - Isocrinidae
Isocrinus rupellensis
Crinoidea - Millericrinida - Millericrinidae
Angulocrinus simplex
Ophiuroidea
Ophiurella bispinosa d'Orbigny 1850
d'Orbigny 1850 1 specimen
Ophiuroidea - Ophiurida
Acroura subnuda d'Orbigny 1850
d'Orbigny 1850 1 specimen
Echinoidea - Pseudodiadematidae
Acrocidaris nobilis
Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Polycidaridae
Paracidaris florigemma (Phillips 1829)
Gastropoda - Ampullinidae
Ampullospira sp. Harris 1897
spelled with current rank as Ampullina (Ampullospira)
unclassified
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Polychaeta - Terebellomorpha
Terebella sp.
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
see common names

Geography
Country:France
Coordinates: 46.1° North, 1.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.8° North, 9.0° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Kimmeridgian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Early/Lower Kimmeridgian Ammonoid zone: Cimodoce
Age range of interval:154.80000 - 152.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: Third reefal level of the Chay Peninsula
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal lithified packstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:slope/ramp reef
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,cast,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils
Abundance in sediment:abundant
Bioerosion:frequent
Encrustation:frequent
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,surface (in situ),sieve,field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:101050
Authorizer:L. Villier Enterer:L. Villier
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-12-15 19:54:26 Last modified:2010-12-15 02:54:26
Access level:the public Released:2010-12-15 19:54:26
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
34523. N. Olivier, B. Pittet, W. Werner, P. Hantzpergue, and C. Gaillard. 2008. Facies distribution and coral-microbialite reef development on a low-energy carbonate ramp (Chay Peninsula, Kimmeridgian, western France). Sedimentary Geology 205:14-33 [L. Villier/L. Villier]

Secondary references:

17639 A. d'Orbigny. 1850. Prodrome du paléontologie stratigraphique universelle des animaux mollusques et rayonnés faisant suite au cours élémentaire de paléontologie et de géologie stratigraphique 2:1-428 [L. Villier/L. Villier/L. Villier]