Le Gaty, Geraudot (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Champagne-Ardenne, France (48.3° N, 4.3° E: paleocoordinates 36.8° N, 8.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Albian (109.0 - 105.3 Ma)

• Hoplites dentatus zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified marl

• relatively deep water deposits (100-200 m)
• rich fauna including solitary corals, molluscs, decapod crustaceans, serpulid polychaetes, echinoderms and fishes

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Stolarski, H. Zibrowius, and H. Löser. 2001. Antiquity of the scleractinian-sipunculan symbiosis. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 46(3):309-330 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85311: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.12.2008, edited by Richard Butler

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Pterosauria -
Ornithocheirus sp.
Ornithocheirus sp. Seeley 1869 pterosaur
Dubus collection 219, cervical vertebra
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Heterocyathus priscus n. sp.
Heterocyathus priscus n. sp. Stolarski et al. 2001 stony coral