Louvigny b TGV excavation (Jurassic of France)

Where: France (49.0° N, 6.2° E: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 10.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sinemurian (199.3 - 190.8 Ma)

• Based on map and lithostratigraphy (bancs calcaires à Gryphées)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collected by Christian Pautrot

Primary reference: D. Delsate. 2009. Microrestes de poissons du Lias et du Rhétien de Moselle et de Meurthe-et-Moselle (N-E France). Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de la Moselle 51:19-33 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 149425: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.08.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Synechodontiformes - Palaeospinacidae
Synechodus sp. Woodward 1888 elasmobranch
Gnathostomata
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Actinopterygii indet. ray-finned fish
Ptycholepis or carnivore like Furo, Eugnathus (Halecomorphi)