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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| - Lagerstätte de La Voulte-sur-Rhône (fr)
- La Voulte-sur-Rhône (lagerstätte) (en)
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| - Le lagerstätte de La Voulte-sur-Rhône est un gisement paléontologique de référence internationale, situé en France et réputé pour l’extraordinaire conservation des fossiles d'animaux marins datés du Jurassique moyen. (fr)
- 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. (en)
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| - The mines ravine of the Voulte lagerstätte. (en)
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| - Le lagerstätte de La Voulte-sur-Rhône est un gisement paléontologique de référence internationale, situé en France et réputé pour l’extraordinaire conservation des fossiles d'animaux marins datés du Jurassique moyen. (fr)
- 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. (en)
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| - Several historically active (en)
- commercial quarries (en)
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| - La Voulte-sur-Rhône, (en)
- a nearby town (en)
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| - ferruginous limestone (en)
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| - Claystones and marls (en)
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