Where: Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France (44.6° N, 5.7° E: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 14.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-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 111692: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.06.2011