Cocheren (Triassic of France)

Where: Moselle, France (49.1° N, 6.9° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 27.4° N, 26.9° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Grès à Voltzia Formation, Aegean (246.7 - 245.0 Ma)

• Gres a Voltzia is early Anisian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta plain; lithified claystone and siltstone

• "Fossils deposited in a shallow, brackish environment" (Grimaldi & Engel, 2005)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: N. D. Sinitshenkova, F. Marchal-Papier, L. Grauvogel-Stamm and J. C. Gall. 2005. The Ephemeridea (Insecta) from the Gres a Voltzia (early Middle Triassic) of the Vosges (NE France). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 79(3):377-397 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 140641: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.03.2013, edited by Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

Branchiopoda
 Diplostraca - Euestheriidae
"Isaura minuta" = Euestheria minuta
"Isaura minuta" = Euestheria minuta von Zieten 1833 clam shrimp
Insecta
 Ephemerida - Vogesonymphidae
Vogesonympha ludovici Sinitshenkova and Marchal-Papier 2005 mayfly
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Multicrustacea
 Cyclida - Halicynidae
Halicyne ornata Trümpy 1957
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
"Lingula tenuissima" = Lingularia tenuissima
"Lingula tenuissima" = Lingularia tenuissima Bronn 1837
Bivalvia
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Homomya impressa Alberti 1864 clam
Reptilia
  -
Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768 reptile
Palaeoxyris regularis
  -
Palaeoxyris regularis Brogniart 1828
fish eggs
 Ichnofossils -
Kouphichnium sp. Nopcsa 1923