Echinoderms, Renggeri-Ton, Longecombe, Ain: Early/Lower Oxfordian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
? Protoglobigerina sp.
Crinoidea - Cyrtocrinida
Cyrtocrinida indet. Sieverts-Doreck 1953
Holothuroidea
Holothuroidea indet. (de Blainville 1834)
Echinoidea
Echinoidea indet. (Leske 1778)
Asteroidea
Asteroidea indet. de Blainville 1830
Ophiuroidea - Amphilepidida - Ophiopholidae
Ophiopholis trispinosa n. sp. Hess 1965
325 elements
312 lateral plates, 13 arm fragments
Ophiuroidea - Ophiacanthida - Ophiacanthidae
Ophiacantha suprajurassica n. sp. Hess 1965
5 elements
5 lateral plates
Ophiuroidea - Ophiurida - Ophiosphalmidae
Ophiomusium longecombense n. sp. Hess 1965
68 elements
62 lateral plates, 5 vertebrae, 1 arm fragments
Ophiuroidea - Ophiurida - Aplocomidae
Ophiopetra oertlii n. sp. Hess 1965
71 elements
67 lateral plates, 4 arm fragments
Sinosura reicheli n. sp. Hess 1965
112 elements
92 lateral plates, 9 vertebrae, 11 arm fragments
Ostracoda - Platycopida - Cytherellidae
Cytherella index
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Bairdia sp. M'Coy 1844
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Candonidae
Paracypris sp. Sars 1866
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Pontocyprididae
Pontocyprella suprajurassica Oertli 1959
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Bythocytheridae
Monoceratina scrobiculata
Monoceratina sp. Roth 1928
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cytheridae
Lophocythere cruciata
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Progonocytheridae
Procytheridea gublerae
Nodosariata - Polymorphinida - Polymorphinidae
Ramulina cf. spandeli
Bullopora rostrata
Nodosariata - Robertinida - Epistominidae
Epistomina parastelligera
Epistomina sp.
Nodosariata - Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Lenticulina brueckmanni
Lenticulina ovatoacuminata
Lenticulina quenstedti
Lenticulina muensteri Bartenstein and Brand 1937
synonym of Lenticulina munsteri
Lenticulina varians (Bornemann 1854)
Saracenaria cornucopiae
Nodosariata - Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Dentalina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
Astacolus cf. major
Frondicularia nikitini
Planularia tricarinella
Lituolida - Lituolidae
Ammobaculites helvetojurassicus
Ammobaculites suprajurassicus
Haplophragmoiidae
Triplasia cf. emslandensis
Hormosinidae
Reophax horridus
Reophax scorpiurus
unclassified
Ophthalmidium carinatum Pazdrowa 1958
Spirillinidae
Spirillina tenuissima
Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Nubeculariidae
Nubecularia infraoolithica
see common names

Geography
Country:France County:Ain
Coordinates: 46.0° North, 5.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.9° North, 14.9° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:hand sample
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Oxfordian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Early/Lower Oxfordian
Age range of interval:161.50000 - 154.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Renggeri-Ton
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:offshore
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,replaced with pyrite
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Abundance in sediment:abundant
Disassociated minor elements:all
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,sieve,field collection
Minimum sieve size:0.220 Maximum sieve size:0.470
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:61719
Authorizer:L. Villier Enterer:L. Villier
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-06-23 08:14:50 Last modified:2006-06-23 11:14:51
Access level:the public Released:2006-06-23 08:14:48
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

17778. H. Hess. 1965. Mikropaläontologische Untersuchungen an Ophiuren. IV. Die Ophiuren aus dem Renggeri-Ton (Unter-Oxford) von Chapois (Jura) und Longecombe (Ain). Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 58(2):1059-1082 [L. Villier/L. Villier/L. Villier]