Cimetiere d'Orgon, rudists, Provence (Cretaceous of France)

Also known as Reef 3568

Where: France (43.8° N, 5.0° E: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 15.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified grainstone

• biosparite and biopelsparite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. P. Masse. 1980. Les constructions a cnidaires des calcaires urgoniens (Barremien) de Provence, et leur environnement [Constructions of Cnidaria from the Urgonian Limestones (Barremian) from Provence, and their environment]. Geobios, Memoire special 4:85-97 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69738: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.03.2007

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Taxonomic list

Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Bacinella irregularis Radoicic 1959
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
Demospongiae
 Agelasida - Milleporellidae
"Steineria cf. romanica" = Steinerina, Promillepora provencensis n. sp.
"Steineria cf. romanica" = Steinerina demosponge
Promillepora provencensis n. sp. demosponge
 Hadromerida - Suberitidae
 Chaetetida - Chaetetidae
Chaetetidae indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 chaetetid sponge
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporoidea -
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Neithea sp. Drouet 1824 scallop
 Hippuritida - Requieniidae
Toucasia sp. Munier-Chalmas 1873 rudist
 Hippuritida - Monopleuridae