Vaour deposit, Quercy (Jurassic of France)

Where: France (44.1° N, 1.8° E: paleocoordinates 31.8° N, 7.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Planorbis (201.3 - 196.5 Ma)

• Lower Hettangian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified dolomite and lithified, green claystone

• These sequences reflect a marine lagoon environment with intertidal and supratidal zonecharacteristics.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Freneix and R. Cubaynes. 1984. Biofacies a Cuneigervillia - Pteromya et biofacies a Eomiodon dans l'Hettangian du Quercy (Aquitaine Orientale). Geobios 17(1):5-17 [M. Aberhan/T. Schossleitner/T. Schossleitner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 141984: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 03.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Ceratomyidae
Pteromya vaurensis n. sp.
Pteromya vaurensis n. sp. Freneix and Cubaynes 1984 clam
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"Modiolus (Modiolus) hillanus" = Modiolus (Cyranus) hillanus
"Modiolus (Modiolus) hillanus" = Modiolus (Cyranus) hillanus Sowerby 1818 mussel
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Cuneigervillia rhombica
Cuneigervillia rhombica Cossmann 1904 oyster
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parallelodon hettangiensis
Parallelodon hettangiensis Terquem 1855 clam