Gastropoda, Lower Albian, Clansayes, Drôme (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (44.4° N, 4.8° E: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 11.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, replaced with calcite

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: M. Breistroffer. 1942. Description de quelques gastéropdes albiens du Sud-Est de la France. Annales de l'Université de Grenoble, section Sciences-Médecine 18:59-72 [L. Villier/L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 58379: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 02.02.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Parahoplitidae
Diadochoceras nodosocostatum d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Seguenzioidea - Eucyclidae
Calliomphalus sp. Cossmann 1888 snail
 Cerithioidea - Planaxidae
Fossarus delpayes n. sp. snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Mesalia tecta turret shell
 Pseudomelanoidea - Trajanellidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Colombellinidae
"Columbellina sabaudiana" = Colombellina
"Columbellina sabaudiana" = Colombellina snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Gyrodes pricei moon snail
Gyrodes hebertiana moon snail
 Heterostropha - Nerineidae