Cestas (Fourcq) (Miocene of France)

Where: France (44.8° N, 0.7° W: paleocoordinates 44.8° N, 2.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• Early Burdigalian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; poorly lithified, yellow, calcareous sandstone

• yellow calcareous sands with molluscs

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: B. Cahuzac and A. W. Janssen. 2010. Eocene to Miocene holoplanktonic Mollusca (Gastropoda) of the Aquitaine Basin, southwest France. Scripta geologica 141:1-193 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 171357: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 08.07.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Thecosomata - Cavoliniidae
Vaginella depressa
Vaginella depressa Daudin 1800 snail