Where: France (45.4° N, 5.8° E: paleocoordinates 36.3° N, 14.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Calcaire de Fontanil Formation, Late/Upper Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, brown limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Hérenger. 1944. Sur la présence d'Astéries (Astropecten carthusiae nov. sp.) dans le Valanginien de la Chartreuse (Isère). Travaux du Laboratoire de Géologie de la Faculté des Sciences de Grenoble 24:33-47 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64824: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 17.09.2006

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