Liesbergmühli (Jurassic of Switzerland)

Also known as Reef 1339

Where: Switzerland (47.4° N, 7.4° E: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 16.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: vertebrale ammonoid zone, Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

• Lower Argovian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• marls with intercalations of 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 93153: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.01.2010

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Synastraeidae
Synastrea delemontana Koby 1887 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Haplaraeidae
Meandraraea gresslyi Etallon 1864 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Isastrea tenuisepta Koby 1885 stony coral
Isastrea greppini Koby 1885 stony coral
Isastrea aff. helianthoides Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
"Thecosmilia trichotoma" = Thecosmilia densa Fromentel 1870 stony coral
Montlivaltia cartieri Koby 1884 stony coral
Montlivaltia gyensis de Fromentel 1860 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Dimorpharaea koechlini Milne-Edwards and Haime 1860 stony coral
Dimorpharaea expansa Solomko 1888 stony coral
Microsolena sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral
Microsolena caesaris Koby 1887 stony coral
Microsolena cf. fromenteli Koby 1887 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
"Protoseris fromenteli" = Latomeandra fromenteli
"Protoseris fromenteli" = Latomeandra fromenteli Koby 1885 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
"Cryptocoenia michelini" = Adelocoenia limbata
"Cryptocoenia michelini" = Adelocoenia limbata Goldfuss 1829 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae
Thamnasteria cf. loryi Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral