Where: Switzerland (47.0° N, 6.9° E: paleocoordinates 37.9° N, 15.9° E)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Marbre Batard Formation, Valanginian (139.8 - 132.9 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: yellow limestone
Collection methods: This is part of a bed-by-bed listing of the fossils of this locality based on a previously published list by Baumberger and Moulin (1898)
Primary reference: C.h. Haefeli, W. Maync, H. J. Oertli and R. F. Rutsch. 1965. Die Typus-Profile des Valanginien und Hauterivien. Bulletin der Vereinigung Schweiz. Petroleum-Geologen Und Ingenieure 31(81):41-75 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/A. Clement]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 2243: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 29.06.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Polychaeta | |
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Bivalvia | |
Pholadomya sp. Sowerby 1823 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Nerinea blancheti snail | |
Tylostoma sp. Sharpe 1849 snail | |
Natica pidanceti moon snail
Natica valdensis moon snail | |
Aporrhais sp. da Costa 1778 snail | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Terebratula valdensis" = Loriolithyris valdensis
"Terebratula valdensis" = Loriolithyris valdensis de Loriol 1868 | |
Rhynchonella sp. Fischer 1809 |