Bois de Beinert, Bonnert: Late/Upper Sinemurian, Belgium

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Ichthyosauridae
Ichthyosaurus communis Conybeare 1821
1 individual
IRSNB R145, an incomplete skull
see common names

Geography
Country:Belgium
Coordinates: 49.7° North, 5.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.1° North, 10.9° 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:Late/Upper Sinemurian Zone: oxynotum
Age range of interval:199.50000 - 192.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Luxembourg
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Grès de Bonnert, Luxembourg Formation, Oxynoticeras oxynotum Zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: poorly lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
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:176443
Authorizer:V. Fischer Enterer:V. Fischer
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-02-12 09:56:23 Last modified:2016-02-12 09:56:23
Access level:the public Released:2016-02-12 09:56:23
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

58060. 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]