Belle-et-Houlefort (Jurassic of France)

Where: France (50.7° N, 1.8° E: paleocoordinates 40.6° N, 11.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Discus ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray, argillaceous limestone and lithified, ferruginous, ooidal marl

• gray argillaceous limestone or marl with numerous small ferruginous oolites

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Institut des Sciences de la Terre de Dijon (ISTD)

Primary reference: B. Laurin. 1984. Les Rhynchonellides Des Plates-formes du Jurassique Moyen en Europe Occidentale 1-465 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174437: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 12.11.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Stephanoceratidae
Clydoniceras discus Sowerby 1813 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Ataphridae
Ataphrus sp. Gabb 1869 snail
 Heterostrophia -
Bactroptyxis sp. Cossmann 1896 snail
 Neritoidea - Neritidae
Neritoma sp. Morris 1949 snail
Bivalvia
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya sp. Sowerby 1823 clam
 Thraciida - Thraciidae
Thracia sp. Blainville 1824 clam
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya sp. Meek 1873 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia sp. Beyrich 1845 cockle
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Trigonia sp. Bruguière 1789 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
"Burmirhynchia elegantula" = Burmirhynchia (Hopkinsirhynchia) elegantula Deslongchamps 1863
Burmirhynchia elegantula elegantula
Kutchirhynchia morieri Davidson 1852
Kutchirhynchia morieri morieri and Kutchirhynchia morieri idonea
 Terebratulida - Loboidothyrididae
 Terebratulida - Eudesiidae
"Eudesia cardium" = Eudesia (Eudesia) cardium
"Eudesia cardium" = Eudesia (Eudesia) cardium Lamarck 1819
 Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
Obovothyris obovata Sowerby 1812