Montauban, quarry 2 (Jurassic of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (49.6° N, 5.6° E: paleocoordinates 38.0° N, 10.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)

• Bucklandi or Semicostatum zone, from debris from Gres de Florenville, Marne de Buzenol, or Gres d'Orval.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Centre de Recherches Lorraines (CRL)

Primary reference: D. Delsate and C. J. Duffin. 1993. Chondrichthyens du Sinémurien de Belgique. Belgian Geological Survey, Professional Paper, Elasmobranches et Stratigraphie 264:103-136 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179493: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.06.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Chimaeriformes - Myriacanthidae
Myriacanthidae indet. Woodward 1889 chimaera
 Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch
MTB-DD-07 "Hybodus medius vel Hybodus delabechei ?"
Hybodus delabechei Charlesworth 1839 elasmobranch
MTB-DD-08
 Hybodontiformes - Acrodontidae
Acrodus anningiae Agassiz 1843 elasmobranch
PG1, PG02, PG03, PG04