Where: Switzerland (47.0° N, 6.9° E: paleocoordinates 37.9° N, 15.9° E)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Couche de Villers Formation, Valanginian (139.8 - 132.9 Ma)
• this is a marker bed named Astieraschicht
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: yellow marl
Collection methods: This is part of a bed-by-bed listing of fossils of this locality based on a previously published list by Baumberger and Moulin (1898)
Primary reference: C.h. Haefeli, W. Maync, H. J. Oertli and R. F. Rutsch. 1965. Die Typus-Profile des Valanginien und Hauterivien. Bulletin der Vereinigung Schweiz. Petroleum-Geologen Und Ingenieure 31(81):41-75 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/A. Clement]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 2245: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 29.06.1999, edited by Karen Layou
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Alectryonia rectangularis" = Ostrea (Alectryonia)
"Alectryonia rectangularis" = Ostrea (Alectryonia) oyster originally entered as "Alectyonia rectangularis"
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Fimbria corrugata clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Holcostephanus astieri" = Olcostephanus
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