Arlon suburbs: Late/Upper Sinemurian, Belgium
collected 1894

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Ichthyosauridae
Ichthyosaurus communis Conybeare 1821
1 individual
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:196.50000 - 189.60000 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:188429
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2017-08-31 15:47:01 Last modified:2017-08-31 15:47:01
Access level:the public Released:2017-08-31 15:47:01
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]