Le Monsard Quarry (Jurassic of France)

Where: France (46.3° N, 4.7° E: paleocoordinates 35.9° N, 15.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Niortense ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Bajocian (171.6 - 167.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

• limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: recrystallized, original calcite, replaced with silica

Collected by Y. Almeras, Lissajous, Arcelin, Roche

• Repository: Département des Sciences de la Terre de la Faculté des Sciences

Primary reference: Y. Alméras. 1970. Les terebratulidae du Dogger dans le Mâconnais, le mont d'Or lyonnais et le Jura méridional: Étude systématique et biostratigraphique. Rapports avec la paléoécologie. Documents des Laboratories de Géologie de la Faculté des Sciences de Lyon 39(2):1-690 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 169973: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 08.06.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Lissajousithyrididae
Morrisithyris phillipsiana Walker and Davidson 1878
Morrisithyris latifrons Bayle 1878
includes specimens of Morrisithyris latifrons sublatifrons (8 specimens)
Morrisithyris davidsoni n. sp. Alméras 1970
Monsardithyris buckmaniana Walker and Davidson 1878
Arcelinithyris arcelini Lissajous 1936
"Gigantothyris omalogastyr" = Strongylobrochus omalogastyr Zieten 1830
 Terebratulida - Postepithyrididae
Gigantothyris blanda Seifert 1963
 Terebratulida - Loboidothyrididae
 Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
Lobothyris pseudocrithea Arcelin and Roche 1936
Lobothyris romani Arcelin and Roche 1936
 Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
"Zeilleria subbucculenta" = Rugitela subbucculenta, Zeilleria waltoni
"Zeilleria subbucculenta" = Rugitela subbucculenta Chapuis and Dewalque 1852
Zeilleria waltoni Davidson 1851
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
"Rhynchonella palmaeformis" = Lacunaerhynchia palmaeformis
"Rhynchonella palmaeformis" = Lacunaerhynchia palmaeformis Lissajous 1936
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
 Rhynchonellida - Prionorhynchiidae
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Rhynchonella "sp. B" Fischer 1809
Rhynchonella sp. B (Arcelin and Roche 1936)
Rhynchonella langleti Chapuis and Dewalque 1853
 Rhynchonellida - Acanthothirididae
Acanthothiris spinosa Linnaeus 1767