Where: Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France (44.3° N, 5.8° E: paleocoordinates 35.3° N, 14.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Lagneau-Herenger. 1962. Contribution a l'etude des spongiaires siliceux du Cretace inferieur. Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France 95:1-252 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 111687: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.06.2011