Where: France (43.8° N, 6.5° E: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 15.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; shelly/skeletal marl
Primary reference: E. Francois and B. David. 2006. Variations morphologiques des Toxaster (Echinoida : Spatangoida) en regard des fluctuations spatiales (Arc de Castellane, SE France) et temporelles (Valanginien-Hauterivien) du milieu sédimentaire : expression d'un potentiel adaptatif restreint. Géobios 39:355-371 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 65190: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 20.09.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Pholadomya elongata Münster 1840 clam | |
Rhynchostreon couloni oyster | |
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Cephalopoda | |
Saynoceras verrucosum d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite | |
Stenolaemata | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Echinoidea | |
Polydiadema grasi sea urchin | |
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Disaster elongatus sea urchin | |
Crinoidea | |
Isocrinus sp. von Meyer 1836 Sea lily |