Fauge valley, Villard-de-Lans, Isere (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (45.1° N, 5.5° E: paleocoordinates 33.6° N, 7.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• Upper Vraconian (terminal Albian)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic, sandy marl

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: L. Taverne and B. Chanet. 2000. Faugichthys loryi n. gen., n. sp. (Teleostei, Ichthyodectiformes) de l'Albien terminal (Cretace inferieur marin) du vallon de la Fauge (Isere, France) et considerations sur la phylogenie des Ichthyodectidae. Geodiversitas 22(1):23-34 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner/T. Schossleitner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63325: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 11.08.2006, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Protostegidae
Rhinochelys amaberti n. sp. Moret 1935 sea turtle
Actinopteri
 Ichthyodectiformes - Ichthyodectidae
Faugichthys loryi n. gen. n. sp.
Faugichthys loryi n. gen. n. sp. Taverne and Chanet 2000