Aubange, Fleche: Toarcian, Belgium

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834
1 specimen
IRSNB P6321
Hybodus delabechei (Charlesworth 1839)
1 specimen
OTT-01
Chondrichthyes - Synechodontiformes - Palaeospinacidae
Synechodus enniskilleni Duffin and Ward 1993
1 specimen
recombined as Palidiplospinax enniskilleni
IRSNB P6322
Synechodus occultidens Duffin and Ward 1993
3 specimens
recombined as Palidiplospinax occultidens
IRSNB P6323-5, OTT-30
Chondrichthyes - Synechodontiformes
Hybodus minor Agassiz 1837
1 specimen
recombined as Rhomphaiodon minor
IRSNB P6320
Chondrichthyes - Squalomorphii - Pseudonotidanidae
Welcommia terencei n. sp. Delsate and Godefroit 1995
6 specimens
recombined as Pseudonotidanus terencei
IRSNB P6326-7, P6329-32
see common names

Geography
Country:Belgium
Coordinates: 49.6° North, 5.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.4° North, 15.6° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Toarcian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 3
Key time interval:Toarcian Zone: bifrons
Age range of interval:182.70000 - 174.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: condensed layer comprising the top for the Hildoceras bifrons zone (Zugodactylites braunaianum subzone) and the Haugia variabilis zone.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:phosphatic,brown conglomeratic marl
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique (IRSNB) - further material in the private collection of D. Delsate (OTT)
Metadata
Database number:141632
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:P. Vazquez
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-03-30 11:18:16 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:02:06
Access level:the public Released:2013-03-30 11:18:16
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

46060. D. Delsate and P. Godefroit. 1995. Chondrichtyens du Toarcien inferieur d'Aubange (Lorraine belge). Belgian Geological Survey, Professional Paper, Elasmobranches et Stratigraphie 278(1994):23-43 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/M. Clapham]