Saint-Claude (spongitien): Middle Oxfordian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Goniodromitidae
Prosopon (Pithonoton) quadratum n. sp. Étallon 1859
see common names

Geography
Country:France
Coordinates: 46.4° North, 5.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.3° North, 15.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Oxfordian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Middle Oxfordian
Age range of interval:161.50000 - 154.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: From the "Spongitien" substage. According to Arkell (1933), the Spongitien is the spongiferous lower Argovian in the Jura (with the Argovian being equivalent to the Middle Oxfordian transversarium and possibly cordatum ammonite zones). Middle Oxfordian according to Enay et al. (1980)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:226083
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:decapod,marine invertebrate
Created:2022-06-16 20:51:19 Last modified:2022-06-16 20:51:19
Access level:the public Released:2022-06-16 20:51:19
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

81931. A. Étallon. 1859. Description des crustacés fossiles de la Haute-Saône et du Haut-Jura. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 16:169-205 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]