Oye-et-Pallet, Urgonien jaune, Franche-Compté (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (46.9° N, 6.3° E: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 15.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• lowermost part of Urgonien jaune, Cruasense zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• lowermost marl and olithic and bioclastic limestone beds of Urgonien 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 66044: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.09.2006

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