Vaulion, Urgonien jaune, Vaud (Cretaceous of Switzerland)

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

• intercalated grey marls in the Urgonien Jaune limestones

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

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Taxonomic list

Stenolaemata
 Cyclostomata - Semiceidae
 Cyclostomata - Plagioeciidae
 Cyclostomata - Mecynoeciidae
 Cyclostomata - Multisparsidae
 Cyclostomata - Cytididae
 Cyclostomata - Lichenoporidae
 Cyclostomata -
 Cyclostomata - Cerioporidae
 Cyclostomata - Heteroporidae