Edge of forest north of Cressier (Cretaceous of Switzerland)

Where: Switzerland (47.1° N, 7.0° E: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 16.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: gray marl and lithified, yellow, muddy limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the NMB

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 153132: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 08.12.2013, edited by J Fearon

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
Lamellaerhynchia hauteriviensis Burri 1953
More than 50
Plicarostrum hauteriviense Burri 1953
about 100
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Nephropidae
"Homarus dentatus" = Hoploparia dentata
"Homarus dentatus" = Hoploparia dentata Roemer 1841 clawed lobster