Provence area, Bedoulian (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (43.7° N, 6.1° E: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 16.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Aptian (121.4 - 122.5 Ma)

• Bedoulian in text

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithology not reported

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: J. P. Masse and A. F. Poignant. 1970. Contribution à l'étude des algues du Crétacé Inférieur provencal. Interêt stratigraphique. Revue de Micropaléontologie 13(4):258-266 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 149808: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 26.08.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
 Dasycladales - Triploporellaceae
Acroporella radoicici Praturlon 1964
 Dasycladales - Polyphysaceae
 Thaumatoporellales -
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
 Bryopsidales - Codiaceae
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Parachaetetes sp. Deninger 1906
  - Gymnocodiaceae
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
"Pseudolithothamnium album" = Polystrata alba
"Pseudolithothamnium album" = Polystrata alba Pfender 1936
Lithocodium aggregatum
  -
Cyanophyceae
  -
Cayeuxia moldavica Frollo 1938
Anthozoa
 Gorgonacea -
Carpathoporella occidentalis Dragastan 1967 gorgonian