Soultz-les-Bains (Grès argileux Mb.): Anisian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Branchiopoda - Notostraca
Triops cancriformis (Schaeffer 1758)
Gall 1971
Geyer et al. 2024
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Clytiopsidae
Gall 1971
Ostracoda
Gall 1971
Lingulata - Lingulida - Lingulidae
Gall 1971
Gastropoda - Naticopsidae
Gall 1971
Gastropoda - Protoculidae
Undularia scalata von Schlotheim 1892
Gall 1971
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Loxonematidae
Gall 1971
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya elongata (Schlotheim 1822)
Gall 1971
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Posidonia albertii n. sp. Volz 1837
Homomya impressa (Alberti 1864)
Gall 1971
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
Myophoria vulgaris (von Schlotheim 1820)
Gall 1971
unclassified
Gall 1971
Glossifungites sp. Lomnicki 1886
Gall 1971
Planolites montanus Richter 1937
Gall 1971
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Grand Est County:Bas-Rhin
Coordinates: 48.6° North, 7.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.0° North, 27.5° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Triassic Epoch: Middle Triassic
Stage: Anisian 10 m.y. bin: Triassic 2
Key time interval: Anisian
Age range of interval: 246.7 - 241.464 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Buntsandstein Formation:Grès à Voltzia Member:Grès argileux
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Geyer, et al. (2024) report age as upper Buntsandstein (but entering as lower Anisian) until PBDB updates using the outdated 1990 timescale.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Secondary lithology: sandstone
Lithology description: Geyer, et al. (2024) report "lenticular bodies of generally grey to pink, fine-grained feldspathic sandstone that are amalgamated in thick sandstone units" with fossils in shales of "Silty to clayey rocks in the succession"
Environment:lacustrine - small
Geology comments: Geyer, et al. (2024) report "brackish water ponds and small lakes"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:203355
Authorizer:A. Dunhill, P. Novack-Gottshall Enterer:B. Allen, P. Novack-Gottshall
Modifier:P. Novack-Gottshall
Created:2019-08-13 05:25:56 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2019-08-13 05:25:56
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
69734. E. Kittl. 1912. Materialen zu einer Monographie der Halobiidae und Monotidae der Trias [Monograph on the Halobiidae and Monotidae of the Triassic]. Resultate der Wissenschaftlichen Erforschung des Balatonsees, II Band: Paläontologie der Umgebung des Balatonsees 1(4):1-229 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]

Secondary references:

70963 J.-C. Gall. 1971. Faunes et paysages du Grès à Voltzia du Nord des Vosges: Essai paléoécologique sur le Buntsandstein supérieur. Mémoires Service de la Carta Géologique d’Alsace et de Lorraine 34:1-318 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]
89603 G. Geyer, T. A. Hegna, and K. Kelber. 2024. The end of the ‘living fossil’ tale? A new look at Triassic specimens assigned to the tadpole shrimp Triops cancriformis (Notostraca) and associated phyllopods from the Vosges region (eastern France). Papers in Palaeontology 10(5):1-31 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]