Where: France (43.9° N, 0.4° W: paleocoordinates 43.9° N, 2.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)
• Upper Aquitanian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified marl
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. P. Chevalier. 1961. Recherches sur les Madreporaires et les formations recifales Miocenes de la Mediterranee occidentale [Miocene corals and reefs from the western Mediterranean]. Memoires de la Societe geologique de France 93:1-562 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 70311: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.03.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Ellasmoastraea multilateralis" = Favites, Tarbellastraea ellisiana
"Ellasmoastraea multilateralis" = Favites stony coral
Tarbellastraea ellisiana Defrance 1826 stony coral | |
Pocillopora madreporacea Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
"Thegioastraea miocenica" = Diploastrea miocenica
"Thegioastraea miocenica" = Diploastrea miocenica Michelotti 1871 stony coral |