Boltigen (Jurassic of Switzerland)

Where: Bern, Switzerland (46.6° N, 7.4° E: paleocoordinates 35.6° N, 19.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mytilus Beds Formation, Bathonian (168.3 - 166.1 Ma)

• niveau II

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Beauvais. 1966. Revision de madreporaires du Dogger de la collection Koby (Revision of Dogger corals from the Koby collection]. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 59(2):989-1024 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86625: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.02.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
"Adelocoenia microphyllia" = Adelocoenia compressa, Adelocoenia bachmanni
"Adelocoenia microphyllia" = Adelocoenia compressa Koby 1881 stony coral
var. compressa
Adelocoenia bachmanni Koby 1881 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Calamophylliidae
"? Baryphyllia alpina" = Baryphyllia gregaria
"? Baryphyllia alpina" = Baryphyllia gregaria d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral