Highway A10, France: Cenomanian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Requieniidae
Apricardia sp. Guéranger 1853
Bilotte and Philip 1985
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Sphaerulites foliaceus Lamarck 1819
Bilotte and Philip 1985
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Polyconitidae
Polyconites operculatus
Bilotte and Philip 1985
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Caprinidae
Caprina adversa d'Orbigny 1850
Bilotte and Philip 1985
common specimens
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Ichthyosarcolitidae
Ichthyosarcolithes triangularis
Bilotte and Philip 1985
corrected as Icthyosarcolites
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Pycnodonte biauriculatum
see common names

Geography
Country:France
Coordinates: 45.4° North, 4.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.3° North, 5.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Cenomanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 5
*Epoch:Gallic
Key time interval:Cenomanian
Age range of interval:100.50000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Local section:Highway A10
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: argillaceous "carbonate"
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:3740
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky, W. Kiessling Enterer:K. Layou, M. Krause
Modifier:C. Visaggi Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-09 12:56:05 Last modified:2004-03-11 16:25:05
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:20
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

241. A. V. Dhondt. 1985. Late Cretaceous Bivalves from the A10 Exposures in Northern Aquitaine. Cretaceous Research 6:33-74 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou]

Secondary references:

53432 M. Bilotte and J. Philip. 1985. Les Faunes de Rudistes du Crétacé Supérieur Charentais du Chantier de I’Autoroute "L’Aquitaine". Cretaceous Research 6:79-84 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]
249 E. Voight. 1985. Bryozoaires du Senonien Charentais du Chantier de l''Autoroute A10 "L'Aquitaine". Cretaceous Research 6:129-142 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou]