Coteau de Mery, Rustrel area (Cretaceous of France)

Also known as Reef 3620

Where: France (43.9° N, 5.5° E: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 15.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Aptian (121.4 - 122.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• coral-stromatoporoid-chaetetid biostromes

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: D. Turnsek and J. P. Masse. 1973. The Lower Cretaceous Hydrozoa and Chaetetidae from Provence (south-eastern France). Razprave Slovenska Akademija Znanosti in Umetnosti, Razred za Prirodoslovne in Medicinske Vede, Dissertationes 16(6):217-244 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 74574: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.08.2007

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Taxonomic list

Hydrozoa
 Spongiomorphida - Spongiomorphidae
Spongiomorpha sp. Frech 1890
Demospongiae
 Hadromerida - Suberitidae