Stockem, Arlon: Late/Upper Sinemurian, Belgium
collected 1894
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Proteosauridae
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Ichthyosaurus platyodon
Conybeare 1822
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1 individual | ||||||
| recombined as Proteosaurus platyodon | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Belgium | State/province: | Luxembourg |
| Coordinates: | 49.7° North, 5.8° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 38.1° North, 11.0° East |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Early/Lower Jurassic |
| Stage: | Sinemurian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Sinemurian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 199.50000 - 192.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Luxembourg | Member: | Virton | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: l'ichthyosaure d'Arlon Station a été découvert "dans un banc durci de grès calcareux, . . . dans le faciès argilo-sableux du Grès de Virton" [=Virton Member of the Luxembourg Formation] | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | calcareous sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: l'ichthyosaure d'Arlon Station a été découvert "dans un banc durci de grès calcareux, . . . dans le faciès argilo-sableux du Grès de Virton" | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | Collection dates: | 1894 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 176256 | ||
| Authorizer: | V. Fischer | Enterer: | V. Fischer |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-02-04 08:14:29 | Last modified: | 2017-08-31 15:46:29 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-02-04 08:14:29 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 29875. | L. Dollo. 1909. The fossil vertebrates of Belgium. Annals of the New York Academy of Science 19(4):99-119 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 57919 | P. Godefroit. 1993. Les grands ichthyosaures sinémuriens d'Arlon. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des sciences naturelles de Belgique. Sciences de la Terre 63:25-71 [V. Fischer/V. Fischer] |