Zwingen Sunnerai (Chestel Member): Middle Oxfordian, Switzerland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Polycidaridae
Paracidaris florigemma (Phillips 1829)
see common names

Geography
Country:Switzerland State/province:Basel Landschaft
Coordinates: 47.4° North, 7.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.5° North, 16.4° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Oxfordian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Middle Oxfordian Ammonoid zone: Gregoryceras transversarium
Age range of interval:161.50000 - 154.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:St-Ursanne Member:Chestel
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:ooidal lithified grainstone
Lithology description: Mostly consists of oosparites and isolated coral patch reefs.
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Fondation Paléontologique Jurassienne (FPJ), Naturhistorischen Museum der Burgergemeinde Bern (NMBE)
Metadata
Database number:196462
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2018-09-15 23:13:00 Last modified:2018-09-15 23:22:03
Access level:the public Released:2018-09-15 23:13:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
66808. E. A. Bischof, B. Hostettler, and U. Menkveld-Gfeller. 2018. The cidaroids from the Middle Oxfordian St-Ursanne Formation of the Swiss Jura Mountains. Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève 37:1-27 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]