Where: Rhône-Alpes, France (46.2° N, 5.7° E: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 14.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (Prapont Formation), Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: C. Gourrat, J. P. Masse, and P. W. Skelton. 2003. Hypelasma salevensis (Favre, 1913) from the Upper Kimmeridgian of the French Jura, and the origin of the rudist family Requieniidae. Geologica Croatica 56(2):139-148 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 98531: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.10.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Hypelasma salevensis Favre 1913 rudist | |
Plesiodiceras munsteri rudist
Epidiceras guirandi rudist |