Hautes-Roches, Switzerland (Jurassic to of Switzerland)

Also known as Reef 529

Where: Switzerland (47.3° N, 7.3° E: paleocoordinates 38.3° N, 16.3° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bifurcatus zone, Vellerat Formation, Middle Oxfordian to Middle Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• Reef section includes bifurcatus and lower bimammatum zones

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified bafflestone and lithified framestone

• Very shallow platform environment with episodic siliciclastic input.
• Microbial-coral patch reefs, about 40 m thick.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

• Emphasis on encrusting organisms

Primary reference: C. Dupraz and A. Strasser. 1999. Microbialites and micro-encrusters in shallow coral bioherms (Middle to Late Oxfordian, Swiss Jura Mountains). Facies 40:101-130 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24200: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 02.08.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Incomplete coral taxonomy
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Bacinella irregularis Radoicic 1959
encrusting
  - Aphralysiaceae
Lithocodium aggregatum
  -
Lithocodium aggregatum Elliott 1956
encrusting [entered as Lithocodium agregatum]
unclassified
  -
Nodosariata
 Polymorphinida - Polymorphinidae
Bullopora sp. Quenstedt 1856
encrusting
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Ammobaculites sp. Cushman 1910
 Loftusiacea - Cyclamminidae
 Loftusiacea - Hottingeritidae
Alveosepta sp. Hottinger 1967
 Hormosinacea - Telamminidae
 Lituolacea - Haplophragmoiidae
Placopsilina sp. d'Orbigny 1850
encrusting
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Nubeculariidae
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Solenopora sp. Dybowski 1877
encrusting
 Thaumatoporellales -
Demospongiae
 Clavulina - Adociidae
Aka sp. De Laubenfels 1936 demosponge
 Sphinctozoa -
Sphinctozoa indet. Steinmann 1882
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
Calamophylliopsis sp. Alloiteau 1952 stony coral
probably synonymous with Dermosmilia
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Microsolena sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
? Stylina sp. Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Lithophaga sp. Röding 1798 mussel
Stenolaemata
 Cyclostomata - Stomatoporidae
Stomatopora sp. Bronn 1825
encrusting
 Cyclostomata - Diastoporidae
Berenicea sp. Lamouroux 1821
encrusting
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
encrusting
 Terebellomorpha -
Tubiphytes morronensis
  -
"Tubiphytes morronensis" = Crescentiella morronensis
"Tubiphytes morronensis" = Crescentiella morronensis Crescenti 1969
encrusting