Echinodermata, Unit B1, Les Renardières, level 2, Charente-Maritime (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (46.0° N, 0.8° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 1.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified, sandy grainstone

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 59817: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 13.04.2006

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
"Stereocidaris vesiculosa" = Temnocidaris (Stereocidaris)
"Stereocidaris vesiculosa" = Temnocidaris (Stereocidaris) pencil urchin
 Arbacioida - Arbaciidae
Goniopygus menardi Desmarest in Defrance 1925 sea urchin
 Euechinoidea - Pseudodiadematidae
Tetragramma variolare Brongniart 1822 sea urchin
 Holectypoida - Holectypidae
Coenholectypus excisus Desor 1847 sea urchin
 Holectypoida -
 Spatangoida - Toxasteridae
Heteraster sp. heart urchin
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
 Irregularia - Archiaciidae
Archiacia sandalina Agassiz 1847 sea urchin
 Cassiduloida - Cassidulidae
Nucleopygus similis d'Orbigny 1856 sea urchin
 Irregularia - Pygasteridae
 Euechinoidea - Orthopsidae
Asteroidea
 Paxillosida - Astropectinidae
Astropectinidae indet. Gray 1840 sea star
 Valvatida - Goniasteridae
Caletaster romani Breton 1988 sea star