Echinodermata, G2, Port-des-Barques, Charente-Maritime (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (46.0° N, 1.1° W: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 1.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Sciponoceras gracile ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, shelly/skeletal packstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: D. Néraudeau and P. Moreau. 1996. Paléoécologie et paléobiogéographie des faunes d'échinides du Cénomanien nord-aquitain (Charente-Maritime, France). Géobios 22(3):293-324 [L. Villier/L. Villier/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 59811: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 13.04.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
"Calycoceras naviculare" = Calycoceras (Calycoceras) naviculare Mantell 1822 ammonite
Metoicoceras geslinianum d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Sellithyrididae
"Terebratula phaseolina" = Sellithyris phaseolina
"Terebratula phaseolina" = Sellithyris phaseolina Valenciennes 1819
 Terebratulida - Terebratellidae
Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
"Stereocidaris ligeriensis" = Temnocidaris (Stereocidaris)
"Stereocidaris ligeriensis" = Temnocidaris (Stereocidaris) pencil urchin
 Euechinoidea - Pseudodiadematidae
Tetragramma variolare Brongniart 1822 sea urchin
 Holectypoida - Discoididae
Discoides infera Desor 1858 sea urchin
 Holectypoida - Anorthopygidae
Anorthopygus orbicularis de Grateloup 1836 sea urchin
 Holasteroida - Holasteridae
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Hemiaster similis heart urchin
Hemiaster bufo Brongniart 1822 heart urchin
 Irregularia - Pygasteridae
 Calycina -
Cottaldia benettiae Koenig 1825 sea urchin
 Euechinoidea - Orthopsidae
Orthopsis miliaris d'Archiac 1835 sea urchin
Asteroidea
 Paxillosida - Astropectinidae
Astropectinidae indet. Gray 1840 sea star
 Valvatida - Goniasteridae
Calliderma moreaui Néraudeau and Breton 1993 sea star
Caletaster romani Breton 1988 sea star