Sur Combe Ronde (Lower Virgula Marls): Late/Upper Kimmeridgian, Switzerland
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia
- Pholadomyida
- Pholadomyidae
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Pholadomya sp.
Sowerby 1823
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Ceratomyidae
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Ceratomya sp.
Sandberger 1864
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Rhynchonellata
- Terebratulida
- Sellithyrididae
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Sellithyris sp.
Middlemiss 1959
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Chondrichthyes
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Chondrichthyes indet.
Huxley 1880
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Osteichthyes
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Osteichthyes indet.
Huxley 1880
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Reptilia
- Eurysternidae
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"Eurysternidae" indet.
Dollo 1886
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Püntener et al. 2020 | ||||||
Reptilia
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Thalassemys bruntrutana n. sp.
Puntener et al. 2015
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1 specimen | ||||||
Reptilia
- Metriorhynchidae
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Metriorhynchus sp.
von Meyer 1830
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unclassified
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Steneosaurus cf. bouchardi
von Huene 1925
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recombined as Proexochokefalos bouchardi | |||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Switzerland | State/province: | Jura | County: | Ajoie |
Coordinates: | 47.4° North, 7.0° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 38.4° North, 15.9° 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: | Late/Upper Kimmeridgian | Ammonoid zone: | Orthaspidoceras orthocera |
Age range of interval: | 155.70000 - 150.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Reuchenette | Member: | Chevenez |
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | marl |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "hardground within the Lower Virgula Marls." "reddish and strongly encrusted (Ostreidae, Serpulidae) hardground is dated from the Orthocera ammonite horizon." | |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Also known as: | Creugenat | ||
Database number: | 180789 | ||
Authorizer: | P. Holroyd, E. Vlachos | Enterer: | P. Holroyd, E. Vlachos |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2016-08-02 17:35:17 | Last modified: | 2021-04-22 15:00:59 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-08-02 17:35:17 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
60038. | C. Puntener, J. Anquetin, and J.-P. Billon-Bruyat. 2015. Thalassemys bruntrutana n. sp., a new coastal marine turtle from the Late Jurassic of Porrentruy (Switzerland), and the paleobiogeography of the Thalassemydidae. PeerJ 3:e1282:1-28 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] |
Secondary references:
72927 | C. Püntener, J. Anquetin, and J.-P. Billon-Bruyat. 2020. New material of “Eurysternidae” (Thalassochelydia, Pan-Cryptodira) from the Kimmeridgian of the Swiss Jura Mountains. Palaeovertebrata 43(1-e2):1-14 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |