Where: France (46.9° N, 5.7° E: paleocoordinates 29.2° N, 8.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Marnes de Châlins Formation, Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• the "upper green marl" of Henry seems to equal level GR3

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, green, sandy marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M. Henry, G. Cuny, J. Mazin in 1870s; 1992

Collection methods: mechanical, hydrochloric, peroxide,

Primary reference: M. J. Henry. 1876. L'Infralias dans la Franche-Comté [The Lower Lias of Franche-Comté]. Mémoires de la Société d'Émulation du Doubs, 4e série 10:287-486 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117821: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Trisha Wolfe on 27.09.2011, edited by Matthew Carrano

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