Where: New Caledonia (21.2° S, 165.3° E: paleocoordinates 58.7° S, 152.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Early/Lower Kimmeridgian to Early/Lower Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 66.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified volcaniclastic sediments and poorly lithified, silty, sandy limestone
•--a la base, un enseble volcano-sedimentaire contenant de rares Inocerames;
•--au-dessus, un enseble detritique compose essentiellement par des arenites tres fines qui contiennent la macrofaune. Elles sont noires, micacees, tres pyriteuses et contiennent de nombreux aspect tigre caracteristique. des niveaux intercalaires de shales noires, de litarenites volcanosedimentaires et de calcaires greseux sont subordonnes.
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•Dans les horizons fossiliferes, on note l'abondance de nodules spheriques, de taille centimetrique, siliceux ou arenitiques, plus rarement calcaires. Ces nodules sont generalement azoïque.
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•Translated to English:
•The Upper Jurassic formation includes two distinct lithological:
•- at the base, a volcano-sedimentary enseble containing rare inoceramids;
•- Above, a detrital enseble consists mainly of very fine arenites containing macrofauna. They are black, micaceous, very pyritic and contain many characteristic appearance tiger. Levels of intermediate black shales of litharenites volcano-sedimentary and sandy limestones are subordinate.
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•In the fossiliferous horizons, there is plenty of spherical nodules, centimetric, siliceous and detrital, more rarely limestone. These nodules are usually lacking fossils.
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite, replaced with silica, replaced with pyrite, replaced with limonite
Primary reference: S. Freneix, J. A. Grant-Mackie, and J. Lozes. 1974. Présence de Malayomaorica (Bivalvia) dans le Jurassique supérieur de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 7(4):456-464 [G. Stanley/H. Shepherd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 125754: authorized by George Stanley, entered by Hannah Shepherd on 21.03.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Perisphinctidae indet. Steinmann 1890 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Inoceramus cf. galoi, "Inoceramus cf. haasti" = Retroceramus haasti
Inoceramus cf. galoi Boehm 1907 clam
"Inoceramus cf. haasti" = Retroceramus haasti Hochstetter 1863 clam | |
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