Musièges, Pierre jaune, Rhone-Alpes (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (46.0° N, 6.0° E: paleocoordinates 36.7° N, 15.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pierre jaune Formation, Early/Lower Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)

• topmost part of Pierre jaune, Nodosoplicatum zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified marl and lithified limestone

• topmost bioclastic limestone and marl beds of Pierre jaune

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: B. Walter. 1993. Une nouvelle faune de bryozoaires de l'Hauterivien inférieur du Jura [A new bryozoan fauna from the lower Hauterivian of the Jura]. Géobios 26(5):555-574 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 66042: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.09.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Stenolaemata
 Cyclostomata - Plagioeciidae
Mesenteripora acuta, Mesenteripora hiselyi, Mesenteripora marginata
 Cyclostomata - Mecynoeciidae
Mecynoecia icaunensis
Mecynoecia icaunensis d'Orbigny 1850
 Cyclostomata -
Spirentalophora helvetica
 Cyclostomata - Petaloporidae
Petalopora flavapetrensis n. sp.
 Cyclostomata -
Lobomesenteripora musiegensis n. sp., Lobomesenteripora neocomiensis, Tetragonoecia vaulionensis, Perfodiastopora cincta, Perfodiastopora vuachensis
 Cyclostomata - Leiosoeciidae
Leiosoecia bognensis
 Cyclostomata - Cerioporidae
Heteropora arborea