Combe de Bonnieux (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France (43.8° N, 5.3° E: paleocoordinates 34.2° N, 15.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone

• coral bed overlying fine grained packstones with cherts and capped by biocalcarenite

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: E. Morycowa and J. P. Masse. 2009. Lower Cretaceous Microsolenina (Scleractinia) from Provence (southern France). Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae 79:97-140 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 116872: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.09.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Hydnophoromeandraraea provencensis
Hydnophoromeandraraea provencensis Masse and Morycowa 1994 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Mixastraea westfalica
Mixastraea westfalica Löser 1993 stony coral