Chargey-les-Port, Biostrome R7, Franche-Compté: Early/Lower Bajocian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae
Thamnasteria mettensis Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851
10 %-specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Isastrea bernardiana (d'Orbigny 1850)
51 %-specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Cladophylliidae
Cladophyllia babeana (d'Orbigny 1850)
12 %-specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Dendraraea dendroidea (Ferry 1861)
27 %-specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:France
Coordinates: 47.7° North, 6.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.4° North, 15.9° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Bajocian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 4
Key time interval:Early/Lower Bajocian
Age range of interval:170.90000 - 168.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Calcaire à polypier de Frotey
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Humphriesianum subzone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "reef rocks"
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Geology comments: well-bedded biostrome, 80-120 cm thick
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 3449
Database number:66954
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-10-27 02:46:02 Last modified:2006-12-12 04:40:50
Access level:the public Released:2006-10-27 02:46:02
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

19071. N. Olivier, B. Lathuiliere, and P. Thiry-Bastien. 2006. Growth models of Bajocian coral-microbialite reefs of Chargey-les-Port (eastern France): palaeoenvironmental interpretations. Facies 52:113-127 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]