Velloreille-les-Choye 1, Haut-Saone, Franche-Comte (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (47.4° N, 5.7° E: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 15.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Radiatus Zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified claystone

• dark yellow calcareous claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. Walter. 1995. Les bryozoaires de l'Hauterivien inférieur de Velloreille-lès-Choye, Haute-Saône. Une faune de transition entre Bassin de Paris et Jura. [The Bryozoa from the Lower Hauterivian of Velloreille-lès-Choye, Haute-Saône. A transitional fauna between the Paris Basin and the Jura.]. Géobios 28(4):413-424 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61555: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.06.2006

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