Butte-des-Usages, Cuise-la-Motte (Deshayes collection) (Eocene of France)

Where: Aisne, France (49.4° N, 3.0° E: paleocoordinates 44.9° N, 0.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: NP 12 nannofossil zone, Nummulitic Sands Member (Sables de Pierrefonds Formation), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• Cuisien=Middle Ypresian; should be Sables d'Aizy or Sables de Pierrefonds; Nummulites is common in Sables de Pierrefonds, so I went with that. P6, NP12

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: carbonate

• Nummulitic sand

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Deshayes material is apparently lost (was not traced at Université Claude Bernard in Lyon)

Primary reference: L. Dolin and J. M. Pacaud. 2009. Les Cypraeoidea et Velutinoidea (Mollusca, Caenogastropoda) du Lutétien inférieur du Vicentin et du Véronais (nord-est de l’Italie). Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève 28(2):277-314 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 177669: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 07.04.2016

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
 Ostreida - Malleidae
"Aviculoperna levesquei" = Isognomon1
"Aviculoperna levesquei" = Isognomon1 oyster
 Arcida - Limopsidae
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
Bathytormus tenuistria1 clam
Bathytormus tenuistria subtumida
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
 Cardiida - Donacidae
 Pholadida - Pholadidae
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Hydrobiidae
Costhyrella abnormis4, "Nematura microscopica n. sp." = Costhyrella microscopica2
Costhyrella abnormis4 Deshayes 1862 snail
"Nematura microscopica n. sp." = Costhyrella microscopica2 Cossmann 1883 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Rissoidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Seraphsidae
Paraseraphs tetanus1 Jung 1974 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Pediculariidae
"Cypraea interposita n. sp." = Cypraedia (Protocypraedia) interposita
"Cypraea interposita n. sp." = Cypraedia (Protocypraedia) interposita Deshayes 1865 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
 Cerithioidea - Pachychilidae
"Melanatria suzanna" = Moniquia suzanna5
"Melanatria suzanna" = Moniquia suzanna5 d'Orbigny 1850 snail
 Cerithioidea - Potamididae
"Cerithium subquadrisulcatum" = Tympanotonos (Diptychochilus) involutus1
"Cerithium subquadrisulcatum" = Tympanotonos (Diptychochilus) involutus1 Lamarck 1804 horn snail
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
 Trochoidea - Colloniidae
"Delphinula submarginata n. sp." = Collonia marginata submarginata3
"Delphinula submarginata n. sp." = Collonia marginata submarginata3 d'Orbigny 1850 snail