Bully, Pays de Bray (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Haute-Normandie, France (49.7° N, 1.4° E: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 8.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gault Clay Formation, Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)

• Otohoplites bulliensis A4-5 zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified claystone

• less favourable conditions for corals

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Beauvais. 1982. Revision du genre Palaeohelia Alloiteau (Scleractiniaire meso-cretace) [Revision of the genus Palaeohelia Alloiteau (Middle Cretaceous Scleractinia)]. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 75(3):669-687 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85334: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.12.2008

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Oculinidae
Palaeohelia albiensis n. sp. Beauvais 1982 stony coral