Saucats (Pont-Pourquey), Gironde (Miocene of France)

Where: France (44.7° N, 0.6° W: paleocoordinates 44.7° N, 2.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• Early Burdigalian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, yellow, calcareous sandstone

• Infralittoral facies.
• calcareous yellow, finegrained sands, more or less shelly

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Natural History Museum, Bordeaux

Primary reference: A. Peyrot. 1933. Conchologie Néogénique de l'Aquitaine, Tome VI, Gastropodes (Suite). Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 85:5-71 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 171361: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 08.07.2015, edited by Matthew Clapham and Patricia Holroyd

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Thecosomata - Limacinidae
Limacina bulimoides2, Heliconoides ? inflata2
Limacina bulimoides2 Orbigny 1836 snail
Heliconoides ? inflata2 Orbigny 1836 snail
 Thecosomata - Cavoliniidae
Vaginella depressa2, Diacrolinia aquensis2
Vaginella depressa2 Daudin 1800 snail
Diacrolinia aquensis2 Grateloup 1827 snail
Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Aturiidae
Aturia aturi
Aturia aturi Basterot 1825 nautiloid
Reptilia
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionyx sp.1
Trionyx sp.1 Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle
 Testudines - Cheloniidae
Chelonia girundica1
Chelonia girundica1 Delfortrie 1869 green sea turtle
1Broin 1977; 2Cahuzac and Janssen 2010