Montmelon (Jurassic of Switzerland)

Where: Jura, Switzerland (47.3° N, 7.2° E: paleocoordinates 37.2° N, 16.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bajocian (170.3 - 168.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone

• coral limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Beauvais. 1966. Revision de madreporaires du Dogger de la collection Koby (Revision of Dogger corals from the Koby collection]. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 59(2):989-1024 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86670: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.02.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae
Thamnasteria jaccardi
Thamnasteria jaccardi Koby 1888 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Chomatoseris orbulites, "Dimorpharaea verdati" = Microsolena verdati
Chomatoseris orbulites Lamouroux 1821 stony coral
"Dimorpharaea verdati" = Microsolena verdati Koby 1889 stony coral