Search results for "Toarcian"
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Early–middle Jurassic lytoceratid ammonites with constrictions from Morocco: palaeobiogeographical and evolutionary implications.
2008
13 pages; International audience; The ammonite genus Alocolytoceras Hyatt, 1900 is an uncommon lytoceratid with distinctive shell ornament. A set of 58 specimens, recently collected at Amellago in the central High Atlas (Morocco), has enabled us to trace a succession of three species over eight biozones from the Toarcian to the Aalenian. Two specimens from the Lusitanian Basin are added for comparison. Following a review of the genus, based on original specimens and data from the literature, seven species are considered valid. A palaeobiogeographical synthesis of 13 regions demonstrates irregular distribution patterns over time, with a constant presence in the south-west Tethys and an insta…
Continental weathering and climatic changes inferred from clay mineralogy and paired carbon isotopes across the early to middle Toarcian in the Paris…
2014
Abstract Lower Toarcian strata (Lower Jurassic) have been extensively studied with a view to understanding the oceanographic, climatic and biological processes that drove the Earth's system into an Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE). For this time period, the evolution of the European marine seaways is now relatively well constrained owing to multiple geochemical studies, but investigations regarding climatic trends in the continental realm remain sparse. In the present study, we test the clay mineralogy as a continental climate-sensitive proxy in the well-documented Sancerre core (southern Paris Basin). We compare variations in the kaolinite content with p CO 2 fluctuations (derived from paired ca…
Le Toarcien inférieur et moyen du Quercy méridional études stratigraphique, sédimentologique et paléoécologique d’après la nouvelle coupe de Caylus (…
2017
The study of a new section around Caylus (Tarn-et-Garonne) allows new biostratigraphic and sedimentological observations on the terms of passage from the Upper Pliensbachian (Formation of the Barre à Pecten) to the Toarcien (Formation de Penne) of the Quercy (France). The Schistes cartons member (Lower Toarcian, Serpentinum zone) is particularly remarkable.Four taxa of brachiopods and eleven taxa of Toarcian ammonites from the Tenuicostatum, Serpentinum and Bifrons zones, sub-zone to Sublevisoni are the subject of the following paleontological study.