Vaulion, Pierre jaune-Urgonien jaune, Vaud (Cretaceous of Switzerland)

Where: Switzerland (46.7° N, 6.4° E: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 15.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)

• uppermost part of Pierre jaune-lowermost part of Urgonien jaune, Nodosoplicatum-Cruasense zones

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified marl

• marl and olithic and bioclastic limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: B. Walter. 1993. Une nouvelle faune de bryozoaires de l'Hauterivien inférieur du Jura [A new bryozoan fauna from the lower Hauterivian of the Jura]. Géobios 26(5):555-574 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 66046: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.09.2006

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