Normandy HLF5: Middle Oxfordian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Gregaryceras sp.
1 individual
Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Nubeculariidae
Nubeculinella sp. Cushman 1930
24 individuals
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758
2 individuals
Dorsoserpula
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Terebratula sp. Müller 1776
1 individual
    = "Terebratula" sp. Müller 1776
Kiessling 2009
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus bipartitus Sowerby 1818
14 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Nanogyra nana (Sowerby 1822)
134 individuals
recombined as Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
Gryphaea dilatata
10 individuals
Bilobissa
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
Actinostreon genuflectum
17 individuals
original and current combination Lopha (Actinostreon)
Actinostreon gregareum (Sowerby 1816)
4 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteria sp. Scopoli 1777
1 individual
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Malleidae
Isognomon promytiloides
4 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna lanceolata Sowerby 1821
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Limatula sp. Wood 1839
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Radulopecten fibrosus (Sowerby 1816)
27 individuals
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Grammatodon concinnus (Phillips 1829)
1 individual
Grammatodon
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Nicaniella cf. cordata
2 individuals
Trautscholdia
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya aequalis
1 individual
Homomya sp. Agassiz 1843
4 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Sowerbyidae
Sowerbya triangularis
1 individual
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Anisocardia isocardioides
9 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya alduini (Brongniart 1821)
22 individuals
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813
1 individual
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorellidae
Myophorella sp. Bayle 1878
3 individuals
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Cardioceratidae
Cardioceras sp.
1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:France
Coordinates: 49.3° North, 0.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.0° North, 9.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Oxfordian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
*Period:Late/Upper Jurassic *Epoch:Malm
*International age/stage:Middle Oxfordian
Key time interval:Middle Oxfordian Zone: cordatum
Age range of interval:161.20000 - 155.70000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Calcaire a oolithes ferrugineuses
Local section:HLF Local bed:5
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:burrows,ferruginous,nodular,ooidal,gray poorly lithified marl
Lithology description: grey, fe-oolitic marl with small limestone nodules
Environment:carbonate indet. Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original calcite,replaced with calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:4907
Authorizer:F. Fursich, W. Kiessling Enterer:F. Fursich, W. Kiessling
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-29 23:31:06 Last modified:2017-07-28 16:39:15
Access level:the public Released:1999-08-29 23:31:06
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

41. F. T. Fürsich. 1999. Unpublished data. [F. Fursich/F. Fursich/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

30388 W. Kiessling. 2009. Taxonomic vetting of messy data in the Paleobiology Database. [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]