Belvédère de Gaud, SW Saint-Remèze, Ardeche (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (44.4° N, 4.5° E: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 14.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified grainstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with calcite

Collection methods: quarrying, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: H. Löser and S. Ferry. 2006. Coraux du Barrémien du Sud de la France (Ardèche et Drôme). Géobios 39:469-489 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 65198: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 20.09.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Corals only
Anthozoa
 Helioporacea - Helioporidae
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Heliocoenia cf. vadosa Pocta 1887 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Heterocoeniidae
Latusastrea irregularis Toula 1884 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
"Actinastrea whitneyi" = Stelidioseris whitneyi
"Actinastrea whitneyi" = Stelidioseris whitneyi Wells 1932 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
"Polyphylloseris distefanoi" = Microsolena major
"Polyphylloseris distefanoi" = Microsolena major Ferry 1861 stony coral