Where: Aquitaine, France (43.7° N, 1.0° W: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 3.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: N4 foram zone, Falun de Saucats Formation, Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)
• N4 and SBZ24 zones. Given area and age, this should be Falun de Saucats formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified, yellow limestone and lithified siliciclastic
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: B. Cahuzac and A. W. Janssen. 2010. Eocene to Miocene holoplanktonic Mollusca (Gastropoda) of the Aquitaine Basin, southwest France. Scripta geologica 141:1-193 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 90457: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.07.2009, edited by Mihaela Krause and Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Vaginella depressa Daudin 1800 snail | |
Heliconoides ? inflata Orbigny 1836 snail | |
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Plaziatia subglobosa1, Zonarina maynotensis n. sp.1, Zonarina aturensis n. sp.1, Lyncina eristicos n. sp.1
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Bivalvia | |
"Europicardium polycolpatum" = Cardium (Trachycardium) polycolpatum2
"Europicardium polycolpatum" = Cardium (Trachycardium) polycolpatum2 Cossmann and Peyrot 1911 cockle | |
Anthozoa | |
"Thegioastraea sp." = Diploastrea3
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