Ponthoux, Urgonien blanc, Jura (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (46.4° N, 5.8° E: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 15.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Urgonien blanc Formation, Late/Upper Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)

• upper part of "Urgonien blanc"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: J. P. Masse, C. Gourrat, D. Orbette and D. Schmuck. 1998. Hauterivian rudist faunas of southern Jura (France). Geobios, Memoire Special 22:225-233 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67453: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.11.2006

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Requieniidae
Toucasia sp. Munier-Chalmas 1873 rudist
Lovetchenia sp. Masse 1988 rudist
 Hippuritida - Caprinidae
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Agriopleura sp. Kühn 1832 rudist
 Hippuritida - Monopleuridae
Foraminifera
 Involutinina - Trocholinidae
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Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Hauerinidae
Foraminifera
 Textulariina - Nezzazatidae