Name: La Voulte-sur-Rhône Location: Ardèche, France Age: Lower Callovian, Jurassic

La Voulte-sur-Rhône

1. Location
2. Geological setting and age
3. Fauna and flora
4. Taphonomy
5. References and links

The fossils found at La Voulte-sur-Rhône are a Konservat-Lagerstatte, a deposit where the organisms show an unusual quality of preservation. In this case the soft parts are incredibly well preserved, sometimes down to cellular detail.

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Section author: Sarah Joomun

This section is part of a Fossil Lagersttten web site which has been built up as a result of the efforts of the 2002-3 MSc Palaeobiology class in the Department of Earth Sciences at University of Bristol, as part of a course in Scientific Communication.

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