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Fig. 4

From: New paleontological and biostratigraphical data (calcareous nannofossils, ostracods, brachiopods), correlations and lithostratigraphic units in the Urgonian facies (latest Hauterivian-Barremian) of the Swiss and French Jura Mountains: the Falaises Member and the Saars Formation (former “Gorges de l’Orbe Formation”)

Fig. 4

Saars Formation of the Neuchâtel area (central Jura Mountains). a–d Les Saars-Le Mail section with well visible lower Falaises Member boundary (a, b, d) and deeply bioperforated Late Hauterivian discontinuity surface B (c). e Creux de Malevaux section with Early Barremian conglomeratic and marly deposit. Captions: NM: Neuchâtel Member; FM: Falaises Member; MM: Montcherand Member. For the reported discontinuities (A, B, C, E) and ostracod assemblages (colored circles 1, 2), see Figs. 10 and 11. The hammer (a: red frame; b, d) and the orange lighter (c; e: red frame) are respectively 31.5 cm and 8 cm long

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