Cure valley (Jurassic of France)

Also known as Reef 589

Where: Bourgogne, France (47.6° N, 3.8° E: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 13.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

• Upper Argovian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• reefal limestones

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 93190: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.01.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
Calamophylliopsis flabellum de Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Calamophylliidae
"Calamoseris sp." = Calamophyllia
"Calamoseris sp." = Calamophyllia Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Haplaraeidae
Astraraea charcennensis de Fromentel 1861 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Rhipidogyridae
Rhipidogyra minima Koby 1880 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Smilotrochiidae
Paramontlivaltia sp. Alloiteau 1951 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Thecosmilia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Microsolena sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Microphyllia sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Stylosmilia michelini Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
"Dendrohelia sp." = Heliocoenia Etallon 1859 stony coral
Stylina sp. Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Stylina delabechei Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
Stylina tubulifera Phillips 1829 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae
Thamnasteria sp. LeSauvage 1823 stony coral