Saucats (Pont-Pourquey), Gironde: Burdigalian, France
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Trionyx sp.
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Cheloniidae
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Chelonia girundica
Delfortrie 1869
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Broin 1977 | ||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Nautilida
- Aturiidae
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Aturia aturi
(Basterot 1825)
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Gastropoda
- Opisthobranchia
- Limacinidae
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Limacina bulimoides
(Orbigny 1836)
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Cahuzac and Janssen 2010 | ||||||
| original and current combination Atlanta (Heliconoides) bulimoides | |||||||
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Heliconoides ? inflata
(Orbigny 1836)
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Cahuzac and Janssen 2010 | ||||||
| recombined as Limacina trochiformis | |||||||
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Gastropoda
- Opisthobranchia
- Cavoliniidae
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Vaginella depressa
Daudin 1800
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Cahuzac and Janssen 2010 | ||||||
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Diacrolinia aquensis
(Grateloup 1827)
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Cahuzac and Janssen 2010 | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | France |
| Coordinates: | 44.7° North, 0.6° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 44.7° North, 2.2° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Burdigalian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Burdigalian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 20.44000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Early Burdigalian | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal,yellow poorly lithified calcareous sandstone |
| Lithology description: calcareous yellow, finegrained sands, more or less shelly | |
| Environment: | shoreface |
| Geology comments: Infralittoral facies. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Repository: Natural History Museum, Bordeaux | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 171361 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling, M. Clapham, P. Holroyd | Enterer: | M. Krause, M. Clapham, P. Holroyd |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-07-08 09:28:14 | Last modified: | 2016-07-04 13:23:10 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-07-08 09:28:14 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 59706. | A. Peyrot. 1933. Conchologie Néogénique de l'Aquitaine, Tome VI, Gastropodes (Suite). Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 85:5-71 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |
Secondary references:
| 60047 | F. Broin. 1977. Contribution a l'etude des Cheloniens. Cheloniens continentaux due Cretace et du Tertiare de France. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Nouvelle Serie, Serie C, Sciences de la terre 38:1-366 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] | |
| 55728 | 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] | |
| 59671 | R. Chirat. 2000. The so-called 'cosmopolitan palaeobiogeographic distribution' of Tertiary Nautilida of the genus Aturia Bronn 1838: the result of post-mortem transport by oceanic palaeocurrents. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 157:59-77 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |