Quarry at La Violette, Arzier (Bed 8 4m) (Cretaceous of Switzerland)

Where: Switzerland (46.5° N, 6.2° E: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 15.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, nodular, gray, calcareous marl

• Gray, ochre friable calcareous nodular marl

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the NMB

• Repository: Museum of Geology Lausanne and author's personal collection.

Primary reference: F. Burri. 1956. Die Rhynchonelliden der Unteren Kreide (Valanginien-Barremien) im westschweizerischen Juragebirge. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 49:600-701 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153116: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 07.12.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
Lamellaerhynchia desori de Loriol and Pictet 1872
more than 100 specimens
Sulcirhynchia valangiensis de Loriol 1864
more than 100 specimens