Bar stream, Massif des Bauges (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Lyon, France (45.7° N, 6.3° E: paleocoordinates 36.4° N, 15.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithified, condensed, silty lime mudstone

• Beds are continuous and 5-30 cm thick

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by A. Doucet and A. Filleul; reposited in the MNHN

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: A. Filleul. 2000. Baugeichthys caeruleus, gen. et sp. nov., a New Albulifrom Fish from the Hauterivian of the Massif Des Bauges (France). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20(4):637-644 [S. Peters/S. McMullen/S. McMullen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133597: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Sharon McMullen on 18.09.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Albuliformes -
Baugeichthys caeruleus n. gen. n. sp.
Baugeichthys caeruleus n. gen. n. sp. Filleul 2000 bonefish
Chondrichthyes
 Synechodontiformes - Orthacodontidae
Sphenodus indet. Agassiz 1843 elasmobranch