Saint-Germain-de-Joux, Ain, coral reef, Rhone-Alpes (Jurassic of France)

Also known as Reef 1153

Where: France (46.2° N, 5.7° E: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 14.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• 2 reef sequences (up to 20 and 6 m thick)

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: E. Fookes. 1995. Development and eustatic control of an Upper Jurassic reef complex (Saint Germain-de-Joux, Eastern France). Facies 33:129-150 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68426: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.01.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cyanophyceae
  -
Cayeuxia sp. Frollo 1938
Lithocodium aggregatum
  -
unclassified
  -
Foraminifera
 Hormosinacea - Telamminidae
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
? Marinella sp. Pfender 1939
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales -
Petrascula sp. Guembel 1873
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
 Thaumatoporellales -
unclassified
  -
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporoidea -
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
Calamophylliopsis flabellum de Blainville 1830 stony coral
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Nerineidae
Nerinea sp. Deshayes 1827 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma sp. Sowerby 1814 file clam
 Hippuritida - Epidiceratidae
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Tubiphytes morronensis
  -
"Tubiphytes morronensis" = Crescentiella morronensis
"Tubiphytes morronensis" = Crescentiella morronensis Crescenti 1969