Area around Neuchâtel (Cretaceous of Switzerland)

Also known as Neuenburg

Where: Switzerland (47.0° N, 6.9° E: paleocoordinates 37.6° N, 16.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hauterivian (132.9 - 129.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J.J. Scheuchzer

• Repository: PIMUZ (Paläontologisches Institut und Museum der Universität Zürich)

Primary reference: J. J. Scheuchzer. 1716. Museum diluvianum quod possidet Joh Jacobus Scheuchzer 1-107 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 138793: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.01.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
Lamellaerhynchia hauteriviensis Burri 1953
Pectunculus striatus amplo in ora media sinu donatus (PIMUZ 22420)
 Terebratulida - Sellithyrididae
Musculina sanctaecrucis Catzigras 1948
Musculus anomius duobus in longiore, tribus in breviore valva lacunis excavatus, minor (PIMUZ 22418, 22419)