Where: France (44.2° N, 6.2° E: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 16.5° E)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified, massive, condensed, hardground, medium-grained, muddy, calcareous limestone and lithified, condensed, fine-grained, argillaceous shale
•boudinés” consisting of tectonized limestones of the hawskerense h orizon ( hawskerense Subzone,
•spinatum Z one) ( Floquet et al. 2003): the “marnes noires inférieures”, consisting of a wedge of anoxic black marls of the strangewaysi and falciferum horizons (exaratum and falciferum subzones, falciferum Zone, lower Toarcian), the “calcaires roux noduleux”, consisting of reddish limestones rich in cephalopod remains that formed during the whole bifrons Subzone (bifrons Zone, middle Toarcian), and the “marnes noires supérieures”, consisting of anoxic black marls of the mactra Subzone (aalensis Zone, uppermost Toarcian)
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Preservation: original calcite, original phosphate
Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: V. Fischer, M. Guiomar, and P. Godefroit. 2011. New data on the palaeobiogeography of Early Jurassic marine reptiles: the Toarcian ichthyosaur fauna of the Vocontian Basin (SE France). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Palaontologie. Abhandlungen 261(1):111-127 [V. Fischer/V. Fischer]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 166558: authorized by Valentin Fischer, entered by Valentin Fischer on 18.02.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Suevoleviathan sp. Maisch 1998 ichthyosaur | |