Pointe Blanche, Massif des Bornes, Urgonian Limestone, Haute-Savoie (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (46.0° N, 6.5° E: paleocoordinates 36.3° N, 16.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified wackestone and lithified grainstone

• biomicrite, biopelmicrite, biopelsparite

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: E. Morycowa and D. Decrouez. 1993. Description de quelques coraux des Calcaires Urgoniens du domaine delphino-helvetique (Bornes, Haute-Savoie, France) [Description of corals from Urgonian limestones of the Delphino-Helvetic Zone (Bornes, Haute-Savoie, France)]. Revue de Paleobiologie 12(1):203-215 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69013: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.02.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
"Comoseris bargyensis n. sp." = Comoseris jireceki
"Comoseris bargyensis n. sp." = Comoseris jireceki Toula 1889 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Ovalastrea pseudolorioli n. sp., Trochoplegmopsis sp.
Ovalastrea pseudolorioli n. sp. Morycowa and Decrouez 1993 stony coral
Trochoplegmopsis sp. Roniewicz 1976 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Eugyridae
"Eohydnophora picteti" = Eugyra (Felixigyra) picteti
"Eohydnophora picteti" = Eugyra (Felixigyra) picteti Koby 1897 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
"Stylina regularis" = Stylina digitiformis
"Stylina regularis" = Stylina digitiformis Achiardi 1880 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Cladophylliidae
Apocladophyllia neocomiensis
Apocladophyllia neocomiensis de Fromentel 1857 stony coral