Cirque d’Archiane, coupe 1, Drome (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (44.8° N, 5.5° E: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 15.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower 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 65201: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 20.09.2006

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Taxonomic list

• Corals only
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Dimorphocoenia sp. de Fromentel 1857 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Eugyridae
Felixigyra dollfusi Prever 1909 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Amphiastreidae
Mitrodendron cf. modicum Eliasova 1975 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Stylina cremai stony coral
 Scleractinia - Cladophylliidae
Cladophyllia cf. clemencia de Fromentel 1857 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Microsolena sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral
Hydnophoromeandraraea cf. provencensis Masse and Morycowa 1994 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Haplaraeidae
Meandrophyllia meandroides Koby 1898 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
Holocoenia jaccardi Koby 1897 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Heterocoeniidae
Latusastrea irregularis Toula 1884 stony coral