La Voulte-sur-Rhône (lagerstätte)
The late Middle Jurassic lagerstätte at La Voulte-sur-Rhône, in the Ardèche region of southwestern France, offers paleontologists an outstanding view of an undisturbed paleoecosystem that was preserved in fine detail as organisms died at the site and settled to the bottom of a shallow epicontinental sea, with a folded floor that in places exceeded 200 m at this site. The site preserves a marine system of the Lower Callovian stage, a little over 160 mya. The sequence is exposed in a series of quarries at La Boissine, west of the village of La Voulte-sur-Rhône. Iron pyrites in the silty shale are symptoms of an anoxic environment. The site was recognized among French paleontologists from the mid-nineteenth century for its finely detailed fossils.
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La Voulte-sur-Rhône (lagerstätte)
The late Middle Jurassic lagerstätte at La Voulte-sur-Rhône, in the Ardèche region of southwestern France, offers paleontologists an outstanding view of an undisturbed paleoecosystem that was preserved in fine detail as organisms died at the site and settled to the bottom of a shallow epicontinental sea, with a folded floor that in places exceeded 200 m at this site. The site preserves a marine system of the Lower Callovian stage, a little over 160 mya. The sequence is exposed in a series of quarries at La Boissine, west of the village of La Voulte-sur-Rhône. Iron pyrites in the silty shale are symptoms of an anoxic environment. The site was recognized among French paleontologists from the mid-nineteenth century for its finely detailed fossils.
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Le Lagerstätte de La Voulte-su ...... ux marins datés du Jurassique.
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The late Middle Jurassic lager ...... r its finely detailed fossils.
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725,942,061
age
Middle Jurassic
Caption
Pyritized fossil of Vampyronassa rhodanica from La Voulte-sur-Rhône
extent
Several historically active
commercial quarries
name
La Voulte-sur-Rhône
namedfor
La Voulte-sur-Rhône,
otherlithology
ferruginous limestone
prilithology
Claystones and marls
region
Ardèche department
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44.799527777777776 4.778444444444444
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Le Lagerstätte de La Voulte-su ...... ux marins datés du Jurassique.
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The late Middle Jurassic lager ...... r its finely detailed fossils.
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La Voulte-sur-Rhône (lagerstätte)
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Lagerstätte de La Voulte-sur-Rhône
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4.4799527777777772e+1
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4.778444444444444e+0