Argiles d'lignite du Soissonnais

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Argiles d'lignite du Soissonnais
Stratigraphic range: Ypresian
~55–50  Ma
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Type Formation
Underlies Oise River Quaternary sediments
Overlies Thanetian marine green sands
Lithology
Primary Sandstone
Other Lignite, amber
Location
Coordinates 49°18′N2°42′E / 49.3°N 2.7°E / 49.3; 2.7
Approximate paleocoordinates 44°48′N0°00′E / 44.8°N 0.0°E / 44.8; 0.0
Region Oise
CountryFlag of France.svg  France
Type section
Named for Soissonnais
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Argiles d'lignite du Soissonnais (France)

The Argiles d'lignite du Soissonnais is a geologic formation in the Oise department of northern France. The formation has provided fossil mammals, reptiles and fish as well as arthropods in the amber of the formation. The Argiles d'lignite du Soissonnais dates back to the Ypresian stage of the Eocene period. [1]

Contents

Description

The formation comprises a succession of lenticular bodies showing two main facies; clayey sands rich in frequently pyritised lignite, together with amber and grey clayey sands with less lignite (1 to 12% of the sediment), with continental vertebrate fauna. These facies, the rarity of mollusk shells and charophytes, probably due to decarbonatation and the presence of pyrrhotite (FeS4), reflect a hypoxic environment.

The strata were deposited at the bottom of two channels cutting into underlying Thanetian marine green sands. The channels prograde toward the northeast and were discovered under Oise River Quaternary deposits.

Fossil content

The formation has provided among others the following fossils: [1]

Mammals

Primates
Artiodactyls
Cimolesta
Eutheria
Ferae
Hyaenodonta
Macroscelidea
Multituberculata
Perissodactyls
Placentalia
Rodents
Soricomorpha
Theriiformes

Reptiles

Turtles
Crocodiles
Lizards
Snakes

Amphibians

Fish

Arthropods

Diptera

Pancrustacea

Flora

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 Argiles d'lignite du Soissonnais at Fossilworks.org
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 Nel et al., 1999
  3. Solé et al., 2013a
  4. Solé et al., 2013b
  5. Bronnert et al., 2019
  6. Nel, 2006
  7. Oise amber at Fossilworks.org

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