Also known as Pays de Bray

Where: Picardie, France (49.4° N, 1.9° E: paleocoordinates 37.9° N, 6.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; black claystone and lenticular sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by J. Fradin & G. Lucas in 1945

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying,

• discovered by student Jean Fradin, obtained by Gabriel Lucas

Primary reference: A. F. d. Lapparent. 1946. Excursions géologiques dans le Bassin de Paris. Deuxième Série: Ile-de-France tertiaire, auréoles crétacées et jurassiques [Geological excursions in the Paris Basin. Second series: Tertiary Ile-de-France, Jurassic and Cretaceous rings]. Actualités Scientifiques et Industrilles. 1004. Géologie Régionale de la France 3:1-167 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 139923: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.02.2013

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