Ste-Croix (Cretaceous of Switzerland)

Where: Switzerland (46.8° N, 6.5° E: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 15.4° 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; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the NMB

• Repository: Museum of Geology Lausanne and Natural History Museum Geneva

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 153130: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 08.12.2013

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
Plicarostrum hauteriviense, Lamellaerhynchia desori, Lamellaerhynchia hauteriviensis, "Lamellaerhynchia picteti" = Sulcirhynchia picteti, "Lamellaerhynchia gillieroni" = Sulcirhynchia gillieroni, "Lamellaerhynchia renauxiana" = Sulcirhynchia renauxiana
Plicarostrum hauteriviense Burri 1953
several examples
Lamellaerhynchia desori de Loriol and Pictet 1872
More than 100
Lamellaerhynchia hauteriviensis Burri 1953
Numerous examples
"Lamellaerhynchia picteti" = Sulcirhynchia picteti Burri 1956
Numerous examples
"Lamellaerhynchia gillieroni" = Sulcirhynchia gillieroni Pictet 1872
"Lamellaerhynchia renauxiana" = Sulcirhynchia renauxiana d'Orbigny 1847