Bois de Beinert, Bonnert (Jurassic of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (49.7° N, 5.8° E: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 10.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: oxynotum zone, Luxembourg Formation, Late/Upper Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)

• Grès de Bonnert, Luxembourg Formation, Oxynoticeras oxynotum Zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique

Primary reference: P. Godefroit. 1995. Un crâne d'Ichthyosaurus communis (Reptilia, Ichthyosauria) du Sinémurien supérieur de Lorraine belge. Bulletin de Société belge de Géologie 104(1-2):77-89 [V. Fischer/V. Fischer]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176443: authorized by Valentin Fischer, entered by Valentin Fischer on 12.02.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ichthyosauria - Ichthyosauridae
Ichthyosaurus communis Conybeare 1821 ichthyosaur
IRSNB R145, an incomplete skull