Chassillé, Le Mans region (Jurassic of France)

Where: Sarthe, France (48.0° N, 0.1° W: paleocoordinates 35.8° N, 9.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• Corresponds to bed n1-2 of Rioult (1968)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, fine-grained, brown sandstone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: J. P. Biddle. 1993. Quelques élasmobranches du Domérien (Jurassique Inférieur) de la région du Mans (Sarthe, France). Cossmanniana, Hors-série 2:61-66 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 149433: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.08.2013

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Euselachii - Agaleidae
Agaleus dorsetensis Duffin and Ward 1983 elasmobranch
 Synechodontiformes - Palaeospinacidae
Palaeospinax sp. Egerton 1872 elasmobranch
 Synechodontiformes - Paraorthacodontidae
"Palaeospinax kruckowi" = Paraorthacodus kruckowi
"Palaeospinax kruckowi" = Paraorthacodus kruckowi Thies 1983 elasmobranch
 Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch
Hybodus delabechei Charlesworth 1839 elasmobranch