Where: Switzerland (46.7° N, 6.4° E: paleocoordinates 37.4° 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)
• middle part of Urgonien Jaune, Cruasense zone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified marl
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: B. Walter. 1993. Les Bryozoaires de l'Urgonien Inferieur de Vaulion (Jura Vaudois, Suisse) - un premier pas vers les faunes barremo-aptiennes [Bryozoa of the Lower Urgonian from Vaulion (Vaudois Jura, Switzerland) - a first step towards the Barremian-Aptian faunas]. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 226(1-3):55-75 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 69055: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.02.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Stenolaemata | |
Poriceata ardescensis Walter 1983 | |
Mesenteripora verticellata, Wassypora vassiacensis n. gen., Wassypora claveli n. sp., Mesonopora polystoma
Wassypora vassiacensis n. gen.
Wassypora claveli n. sp. Walter 1993 | |