Where: Luxembourg, Belgium (49.7° N, 5.0° E: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 7.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Marnes de Jamoigne Formation, Liasicus (201.3 - 196.5 Ma)
• A. liasicus Zone, Middle Hettangian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified marl
•Bed c : Decimetric limestone lumachelle horizon (c1), with fractures and greyish marl (c2) in the cracks between the blocks. The marly intercalations yielded most of the vertebrate remains described here, with the exception of the larger sharks teeth which were obtained from the lumachelle horizon.
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: mechanical,
Primary reference: D. Delsate, C. J. Duffin, and R. Weis. 2002. A new microvertebrate fauna from the Middle Hettangian (Early Jurassic) of Fontenoille (Province of Luxembourg, south Belgium). Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Belgium 48:3-83 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 40087: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 17.06.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Montlivaltia sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral | |
Trocharea sp. Etallon 1864 stony coral | |
Asteroidea | |
cf. Asterias sp. Linnaeus 1758 sea star | |
cf. Terminaster sp. Hess 1974 sea star | |
Echinoidea | |
cf. Diademopsis sp. sea urchin | |
Cidaridae indet. Gray 1825 pencil urchin | |
Gnathostomata | |
Actinopterygii indet. ray-finned fish | |
Actinopteri | |
cf. Platysiagum sp. Woodward 1895 | |
"Eomesodon liassicus" = Mesodon liassicus
"Eomesodon liassicus" = Mesodon liassicus Egerton 1854 | |
cf. Tetragonolepis sp. Bronn 1830 | |
Dapedium sp. Leach 1822 | |
Reptilia | |
Sphenodontidae indet. Cope 1871 lepidosaur | |
Osteichthyes | |
cf. Ptycholepis sp. Agassiz 1832 ray-finned fish | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Synechodus sp. Woodward 1888 elasmobranch
Synechodus paludinensis n. sp. Delsate et al. 2002 elasmobranch
Synechodus streitzi n. sp. Delsate et al. 2002 elasmobranch | |
Polyacrodus sp. Jaekel 1889 elasmobranch | |
Lissodus sp. Brough 1935 elasmobranch | |
Hybodus reticulatus Agassiz 1837 elasmobranch | |
Squaloraja polyspondyla Agassiz 1836 chimaera | |
Cephalopoda | |
Schwegleria sp. Riegraf 1980 belemnite
Schwegleria cf. psilonoti Schwegler 1939 belemnite
Schwegleria cf. feifeli Schwegler 1939 belemnite | |
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Gastropoda | |
cf. Pleurotomaria sp. Defrance 1826 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Plagiostoma gigantea" = Plagiostoma giganteum, Limea sp.
"Plagiostoma gigantea" = Plagiostoma giganteum Sowerby 1814 file clam
Limea sp. Bronn 1831 file clam | |
Chlamys textoria Schlotheim 1820 scallop | |
Gryphaea dumortieri Joly 1907 oyster | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Kulindrichnus sp. Hallam 1960 |