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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Palaeohelia albiensis n. sp.
Palaeohelia albiensis n. sp. Beauvais 1982 stony coral |