Bressaucourt (Jurassic of Switzerland)

Where: Switzerland (47.4° N, 7.0° E: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 16.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

• Sequanian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Beauvais. 1964. Etude stratigraphique et paleontologique des formations a madreporaires du Jurassique superieur du Jura et de l'est du Basin de Paris. Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France 100:1-288 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93094: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.01.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
"Isastrea favulus" = Columactinastraea favulus
"Isastrea favulus" = Columactinastraea favulus Thurmann 1864 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
"Adelocoenia minima" = Etallonasteria minima
"Adelocoenia minima" = Etallonasteria minima Etallon 1864 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Thecosmilia magna Etallon 1864 stony coral
Thecosmilia annularis Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
Thecosmilia furcata Koby 1884 stony coral
Isastrea gresslyi Etallon 1862 stony coral
Isastrea bernensis Etallon 1864 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pachyphylliidae
Columnocoenia ablensis Etallon 1862 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Thamnoseris frotei Etallon 1862 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Solenocoeniidae
"Adelocoenia semiradiata" = Solenocoenia semiradiata
"Adelocoenia semiradiata" = Solenocoenia semiradiata Etallon 1864 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Amphiastreidae
Donacosmilia thurmanni n. sp. Beauvais 1964 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
"Cryptocoenia michelini" = Adelocoenia limbata, Stylina stellata, Stylina tenax
"Cryptocoenia michelini" = Adelocoenia limbata Goldfuss 1829 stony coral
Stylina stellata Etallon 1862 stony coral
Stylina tenax Etallon and Thurmann 1864 stony coral