Grandmont, Beaune: Toarcian, France
collected by Jacques Varennes de Beost 1755

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Pachycormiformes - Pachycormidae
Poisson indet.
    = Elops macropterus n. sp. de Blainville 1818
de Blainville 1818
recombined as Pachycormus macropterus
see common names

Geography
Country:France
Coordinates: 47.1° North, 4.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.4° North, 15.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Toarcian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 3
Key time interval:Toarcian
Age range of interval:184.20000 - 174.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified marl
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,adpression,concretion
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Jacques Varennes de Beost Collection dates:1755
Collection method comments: M. de Varennes de Beost was secretary-in-chief of the Estates of Bourgogne
Metadata
Database number:122738
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-01-05 12:28:49 Last modified:2013-12-09 12:54:31
Access level:the public Released:2012-01-05 12:28:49
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

39125. A. J. Dezallier d'Argenville. 1755. L'Histoire Naturelle Eclaircie dans une de ses Parties Principales, L'Oryctologie, qui Trait des Terres, des Pierres, des Métaux, des Minéraux, et Autres Fossiles, Ouvrage dans lequel on Trouve une Nouvelle Methode Latine & Françoise de les Divifer, & une Notice Critique des Principaux Ouvrages qui ont Paru fur ces Matieres 1-560 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

39126 H. D. de Blainville. 1818. Poissons fossiles. Nouvelle Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle 27:310-395 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
39117 S. Wenz. 1967. Compléments a l'étude des poissons actinoptérygiens du Jurassique français. Cahiers de Paléontologie 1967:1-276 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]