Sample II 12.3, Tercis-les-Bains: Late/Upper Campanian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Holasteroida - Holasteridae
Offaster pilula
Néraudeau and Odin 2001
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
Pachydiscus oldhami (Sharpe 1855)
Courville and Odin 2001
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus typicus (Forbes 1846)
Odin and Dhondt 2001
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Landes
Coordinates: 43.7° North, 1.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.9° North, 1.4° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:Late/Upper Campanian
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local section:Terces-les-Bains Local bed:12.3 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: D'Avenac Unit. Oldest ammonites from the base of the d'Avenac unit include Hoplitoplacenticeras dolbergense and small heteromorphs of the genus Pseudoxybeloceras, indicating a Late Campanian age for the unit. The base of the Maastrichtian is at 115.2 m in the overlying Les Vignes unit.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:offshore shelf
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:213821
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2020-09-12 18:21:17 Last modified:2020-09-12 22:05:08
Access level:the public Released:2020-09-12 18:21:17
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
10432. G. S. Odin. 2001. The Campanian-Maastrichtian stage boundary. Development in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy 19:1-881 [L. Villier/L. Villier/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

73826 P. Courville and G. S. Odin. 2001. Les ammonites spiralées du Campanien et du Maastrichtien de Tercis les Bains (Landes, France). Developments in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy 19:529-549 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
10434 D. Néraudeau and G.S. Odin. 2001. Echinoids from the geological site at Tercis les Bains (Landes, SW France). Developments in Palaeontology and stratigraphy 19:612-634 [L. Villier/L. Villier/L. Villier]
10441 G. S. Odin and A. V. Dhondt. 2001. Bivalve shells in the Campanian-Maastrichtian of Tercis les Bains (Landes, France). Developments in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy 19:462-469 [L. Villier/L. Villier/M. Clapham]