Musièges, Formation de Vions, Haute-Savoie (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (46.0° N, 6.0° E: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 14.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Vions Formation, Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)

• lower part of the formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• yellow bioclastic limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. Walter. 1997. Une faune berriasienne de bryozoaires à Musièges (Jura méridional, Haute-Savoie) [A Berriasian bryozoan fauna from Musièges (Southern Jura, Haute-Savoie)]. Géobios 30(3):371-377 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64627: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.09.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Stenolaemata
 Cyclostomata -
Voigticytis campicheana, Eurystrotos pulchella, Dendroecia neocomiensis
 Cyclostomata - Plagioeciidae
Mesenteripora acuta, Mesenteripora marginata, Mesenteripora reticulata, Mesenteripora sanctacrucensis, Mesenteripora verticellata
 Cyclostomata - Diastoporidae
Diastopora compacta, Diastopora tubulosa
 Cyclostomata - Mecynoeciidae
Mecynoecia icaunensis
Mecynoecia icaunensis d'Orbigny 1850
 Cyclostomata - Cytididae
Chartecytis compressa
 Cyclostomata - Heteroporidae
Defranciopora fungina
 Cyclostomata - Cerioporidae
Diplocava biformis, Heteropora arborea
 Cyclostomata -
Reptocavea tuberosa