Chay Peninsula 2, La Rochelle, France: Early/Lower Kimmeridgian, France
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
|
unclassified
|
||||||||||
|
Porifera indet.
Grant 1836
|
||||||||||
|
Hydrozoa
- Nigriporellidae
|
||||||||||
|
Tubiphytes sp.
Maslov 1956
|
||||||||||
|
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Stylinidae
|
||||||||||
|
Stylosmilia sp.
Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
|
abundant category | |||||||||
| phaceloid | ||||||||||
|
Stylina sp.
Lamarck 1816
|
rare category | |||||||||
| massive | ||||||||||
|
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Actinastreidae
|
||||||||||
|
Actinastrea sp.
d'Orbigny 1849
|
rare category | |||||||||
| ramose | ||||||||||
|
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Dermosmiliidae
|
||||||||||
|
Calamophylliopsis sp.
Alloiteau 1952
|
abundant category | |||||||||
| phaceloid | ||||||||||
|
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Microsolenidae
|
||||||||||
|
Microsolena sp.
Lamouroux 1821
|
rare category | |||||||||
| massive | ||||||||||
|
Rhynchonellata
- Thecideida
- Thecideidae
|
||||||||||
|
Thecideidae indet.
Gray 1840
|
||||||||||
|
Polychaeta
- Terebellomorpha
|
||||||||||
|
Terebella sp.
|
||||||||||
|
Polychaeta
- Sabellida
- Serpulidae
|
||||||||||
|
Serpulidae indet.
Rafinesque 1835
|
||||||||||
|
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
|
||||||||||
|
Ostreidae indet.
Rafinesque 1815
|
||||||||||
|
Telamminidae
|
||||||||||
|
Troglotella sp.
Wernli and Fookes 1992
|
||||||||||
|
unclassified
|
||||||||||
|
Lithocodium sp.
Elliott 1956
|
||||||||||
|
Cyanophyceae
- Garwoodiaceae
|
||||||||||
|
Bacinella sp.
Radoicic 1959
|
||||||||||
|
Wetheredellidae
|
||||||||||
|
Koskinobullina sp.
Cherchi and Schroeder 1979
|
||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | France |
| Coordinates: | 46.1° North, 1.1° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 36.8° North, 9.0° East |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
| Stage: | Kimmeridgian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 |
| *Period: | Late/Upper Jurassic | ||
| *International age/stage: | Early/Lower Kimmeridgian | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Kimmeridgian | Zone: | Cymodoce |
| Age range of interval: | 154.80000 - 152.20000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Chay |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "reef rocks" |
| Lithology description: Second reefal unit. Microbialite-dominated, but many corals | |
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Bioerosion: | frequent |
| Encrustation: | frequent |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | peel or thin section,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Reef 1142 | ||
| Database number: | 32018 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | W. Kiessling |
| Modifier: | W. Kiessling | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2003-05-31 11:37:57 | Last modified: | 2003-05-31 14:48:03 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-05-31 11:37:57 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 8589. | N. Olivier, P. Hantzpergue, C. Gaillard, B. Pittet, R. Leinfelder, D.U. Schmid, and W. Werner. 2003. Microbialite morphology, structure and growth: a model of the Upper Jurassic reefs of the Chay Peninsula (Western France). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 193(3-4):383-404 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling] |