Buxieres-les-Mines (Autunian shales): Asselian - Sakmarian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Eryopidae
cf. Actinodon sp. Gaudry 1866
Heyler and Poplin 1990
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Branchiosauridae
Apateon gracilis (Credner 1881)
Schoch and Milner 2014
Steyler et al. (2000b) and Werneburg (2003, as Melanerpeton gracile)
Aeduelliformes - Aeduellidae
Aeduella blainvillei (Agassiz 1833)
Heyler and Poplin 1990
Bourbonnella guilloti Heyler 1967
Heyler 1967
Paramblypteriformes
Paramblypterus sp. Blot 1966
Heyler and Poplin 1990
Paramblypterus cf. duvernoy
Štamberg 2018
Elonichthyiformes - Acrolepidae
Progyrolepis speciosus (Frič 1875)
Štamberg 2018
Progyrolepis heyleri Poplin 1999
Štamberg 2018
Chondrichthyes - Acanthodiformes - Acanthodidae
Acanthodes sp. Agassiz 1833
Heyler and Poplin 1990
Chondrichthyes - Xenacanthida - Orthacanthidae
Orthacanthus buxieri n. sp. Heyler and Poplin 1989
2 individuals
see common names

Geography
Country:France County:Allier
Coordinates: 46.5° North, 3.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:0.1° North, 16.7° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Permian Epoch:Cisuralian
Key time interval:Asselian - Sakmarian
Age range of interval:298.90000 - 290.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Regional section:Buxieres
Stratigraphy comments: middle Autunien, Autunien encompasses the Asselian and Sakmarian stages = lower Permian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Geology comments: Autunian shales
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:MNHN
Collection method comments: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle d'Autun (France)
Metadata
Also known as:Buxieres les Mines, Allier, Autunien
Database number:34797
Authorizer:J. Alroy, R. Butler, J. Flannery-Sutherland Enterer:R. Whatley, E. Dunne, J. Flannery-Sutherland
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2003-09-25 18:07:12 Last modified:2006-08-14 01:10:44
Access level:the public Released:2003-09-25 18:07:12
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

9281. D. Heyler and C. Poplin. 1989. Systematics and relationships among the Xenacanthiformes (Pisces, Chondrichthyes) in the light of Carboniferous and Permian French materal. Acta Musei Reginaehradecensis S. A. Scientiae Naturales 22:69-78 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/S. Bruning]

Secondary references:

87049 D. Heyler. 1967. Quelques points nouveaux au sujet d’Aeduella Westoll. Problemes actuels de Paleontologie (Evolution des Vertebres) [J. Flannery-Sutherland/J. Flannery-Sutherland]
91975% 16480D. Heyler and C. Poplin. 1990. Les Vertebres autuniens de Buxieres-les-Mines (Allier, France). [Autunian vertebrates from Buxieres-les-Mines, Allier, France]. Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Section C: Sciences de la Terre: Paleontologie, Geologie, Mineralogie 12(2):225-239 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/J. Alroy]
57795 R. R. Schoch and A. R. Milner. 2014. Handbook of Paleoherpetology Part 3A2 Temnospondyli I. [R. Butler/E. Dunne/E. Dunne]
84630 S. Štamberg. 2018. Actinopterygians of the Permian locality Buxières-les-Mines (Bourbon-l’Archambault Basin, France) and their relationship to other early actinopterygians. Fossil Imprint 74(3-4):245-291 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]