North of the road to Fétigny, Savigna, Jura: Late/Upper Oxfordian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Asteroidea - Zorocallida
Terminaster cancriformis (Quenstedt 1876)
Gale 2011 200 elements
Asteroidea - Asteriidae
Savignasterias villieri Gale 2011
Gale 2011 18 elements
Asteroidea
Savignaster wardi Gale 2011
Gale 2011 300 elements
Asteroidea - Tropidasteridae
Plumaster sp. Wright 1863
Gale 2011 15 elements
Asteroidea - Paxillosida - Astropectinidae
Pentasteria (Pentasteria) longispina Hess 1968
Gale 2011 150 elements
recombined as Pentasteria (Archastropecten) longispina
Asteroidea - Paxillosida - Benthopectinidae
Jurapecten hessi Gale 2011
Gale 2011 300 elements
Asteroidea - Paxillosida - Goniopectinidae
Chrispaulia jurassica Gale 2011
Gale 2011 72 elements
Asteroidea - Valvatida - Goniasteridae
Goniasteridae indet. Forbes 1841
Gale 2011 4 elements
Tylasteria jurensis (Goldfuss 1833)
Gale 2011 100 elements
Hessaster longimarginalis Gale 2011
Gale 2011 111 elements
Noviaster sp. Valette 1929
Gale 2011 3 elements
Ophiuroidea - Ophiacanthida - Ophiacanthidae
? Ophiacantha suprajurassica Hess 1965
356 elements
356 lateral plates
? Ophiacantha constricta n. sp. Hess 1966
150 elements
150 lateral plates
Ophiuroidea - Ophiacanthida - Ophiodermatidae
? Ophioderma spectabilis n. sp. Hess 1966
132 elements
132 lateral plates
Ophiuroidea - Amphilepidida - Hemieuryalidae
? Hemieuryale argoviensis Hess 1966
16 elements
5 later132 lateral platesal plates, 11 vertebrae
Ophiuroidea - Ophiurida - Ophiosphalmidae
Ophiomusium cf. gagnebini (Thurmann 1851)
1854 elements
1618 lateral plates, 236 vertebae
Ophiomusium praecisum n. sp. Hess 1966
92 elements
92 lateral plates
Ophiuroidea - Ophiurida - Aplocomidae
Sinosura wolburgi (Hess 1960)
198 elements
82 lateral plates, 92 vertebae, 4 dorsal plates, 20 ventral plates
? Ophiopetra oertlii Hess 1965
58 elements
56 lateral plates, 1 arm fragment
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Pontocyprididae
Pontocyprella suprajurassica Oertli 1959
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Candonidae
Paracypris acris
Paracypris sp. Sars 1866
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Bythocytheridae
Monoceratina cf. stimulea
Monoceratina sp. Roth 1928
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cytheruridae
Cytherura ? liesbergensis
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cytherideidae
Schuleridea cf. triebeli
Ostracoda - Platycopida - Cytherellidae
Cytherella woltersdorfi
Lituolida - Lituolidae
Ammobaculites aequalis
Ammobaculites cf. helvetojurassicus
Ammobaculites coprolithiformis
Valvulina ? fusca
Nodosariata - Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Vaginulina macilenta
Vaginulina cf. mosquensis
Nodosaria sp. Lamarck 1812
Dentalina jurensis
Planularia tricarinella
Astacolus angustissimus
Astacolus folium
Astacolus cf. comptulus
Nodosariata - Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Lenticulina plexus
Lenticulina tumida
Lenticulina cf. charkovensis
Lenticulina brueckmanni
Lenticulina cf. russiensis
Lenticulina compressaeformis
Lenticulina erucaeformis
Lenticulina magna
Spirillinidae
Spirillina tenuissima
unclassified
Ophthalmidium sp. Kübler and Zwingli 1870
Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Nubeculariidae
Nubecularia infraoolithica
Trochamminidae
Trochammina pulchra
Hormosinidae
Reophax sp. Montfort 1808
Ammodiscidae
Tolypammina sp. Rhumbler 1895
see common names

Geography
Country:France County:Jura
Coordinates: 46.4° North, 5.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.4° North, 14.9° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:hand sample
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Oxfordian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Late/Upper Oxfordian Ammonoid zone: bifurcatus
Age range of interval:157.90000 - 154.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Argovian
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Lower Late Oxfordian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified calcareous claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:offshore indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:excellent
Abundance in sediment:abundant
Disassociated minor elements:all
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,sieve,field collection
Rock censused:1000 kg
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:61724
Authorizer:L. Villier Enterer:L. Villier
Modifier:L. Villier Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-06-24 02:58:25 Last modified:2011-03-10 09:09:15
Access level:the public Released:2006-06-24 02:58:25
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
16784. H. Hess. 1966. Mikropaläontologische Untersuchungen an Ophiuren. V. Die Ophiuren aus dem Argovien (unteres Ober-Oxford) von Guldenthal (Kt. Solothurn) und von Savigna (Dépt. Jura). Eclogae geologicae Helvetiae 59(2):1025-1063 [L. Villier/L. Villier]

Secondary references:

35483 A. S. Gale. 2011. Asteroidea (Echinodermata) from the Oxfordian (Late Jurassic) of Savigna, Départment du Jura, France. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 130:69-89 [L. Villier/L. Villier/L. Villier]