Chou valley, near Ethe: Semicostatum, Belgium

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Chimaeriformes - Myriacanthidae
Myriacanthidae indet. Woodward 1889
3 specimens
IRScNB P.870, P.871, P.872 (IG 10445)
see common names

Geography
Country:Belgium
Coordinates: 49.6° North, 5.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.9° North, 10.8° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Sinemurian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 1
Key time interval:Semicostatum
Age range of interval:199.50000 - 192.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Grès d'Orval
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Zone of Belemnites acutus
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique
Metadata
Database number:139848
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-02-19 03:40:27 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:02:06
Access level:the public Released:2013-02-19 03:40:27
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

45020. E. Casier. 1959. Contributions a l'étude des poissons fossiles de la Belgique XII. Sélaciens et Holocéphales sinémuriens de la province de Luxembourg. Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique Bulletin 35(8):1-27 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]