Arlon suburbs: Late/Upper Sinemurian, Belgium
collected 1894
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Ichthyosauridae
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Ichthyosaurus communis
Conybeare 1821
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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] |