Les Gardettes, Monieux, Massif de Vaucluse, Provence (Cretaceous to of France)

Where: France (44.1° N, 5.4° E: paleocoordinates 34.3° N, 15.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Barremian to Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 122.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: E. Morycowa and J. P. Masse. 1998. Les scléractiniaires du Barrémien-Aptien inférieur de Provence (SE de la France) [The Barremian-Early Aptian Scleractinia from Provence (SE France)]. Géobios 31(6):725-766 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64078: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 31.08.2006

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Diplocoenia saltensis de Fromentel 1857 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Rhipidogyridae
Rhipidomeandra bugrovae n. gen. n. sp.
Rhipidomeandra bugrovae n. gen. n. sp. Morycowa and Masse 1998 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Clausastrea saltensis Alloiteau 1960 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pachyphylliidae
Columnocoenia ksiazkiewiczi Morycowa 1964 stony coral