Font-de-Benon quarry, Archingeay-Les Nouillers: Early/Lower Cenomanian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Histocidaridae
Poriocidaris cenomanensis
Echinoidea - Salenioida - Hyposaleniidae
Hyposalenia acanthoides
Echinoidea - Pseudodiadematidae
Tetragramma variolare (Brongniart 1822)
Echinoidea - Clypeidae
Pygurus lampas (de la Beche 1833)
unclassified
cf. Protocalianassa sp.
Echinoidea - Archiaciidae
Archiacia gigantea
Archiacia santonensis
Echinoidea - Cassiduloida - Cassidulidae
Catopygus colombarius
Nucleopygus similis (d'Orbigny 1856)
Echinoidea - Pygasteridae
Pygaster truncatus
Echinoidea - Holectypoida - Holectypidae
Coenholectypus excisus (Desor 1847)
Coptodiscus mengaudi
Echinoidea - Holectypoida
Echinogalerus rostratus
Echinoidea - Holectypoida - Anorthopygidae
Anorthopygus orbicularis (de Grateloup 1836)
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Periaster undulatus
Echinoidea - Arbacioida - Arbaciidae
Goniopygus menardi (Desmarest in Defrance 1925)
Asteroidea - Paxillosida - Astropectinidae
Astropectinidae indet. Gray 1840
Asteroidea - Valvatida - Goniasteridae
Spenceraster rugosus (Spencer 1907)
Comptonia sp. Gray 1840
Caletaster romani Breton 1988
Amphibia - Temnospondyli
Anura indet. (Fischer von Waldheim 1813)
Vullo and Néraudeau 2008 1 specimen
MA FDB 3
Reptilia - Troodontidae
Troodontidae indet. Gilmore 1924
Vullo et al. 2007 3 specimens
MA FBN 1, MA FDB 8, 9
Reptilia - Dromaeosauridae
Dromaeosauridae indet. Colbert and Russell 1969
Vullo et al. 2007
"unnumbered tooth fragments"
Reptilia
? Sauropoda indet. (Marsh 1878)
Vullo and Néraudeau 2010 1 specimen
MA FDB 10
Reptilia - Ornithocheiridae
Ornithocheiridae indet. Seeley 1870
Vullo and Neraudeau 2009 1 specimen
MA FDB 2
Reptilia - Crocodyliformes
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
    = Crocodyliformes indet. Hay 1930
Puértolas-Pascual et al. 2016
Reptilia - Squamata
Squamata informal indet. B Oppel 1811
Vullo et al. 2011 1 specimen
MA FDB 7
Reptilia - Ophidia
Ophidia informal indet. A Latreille 1804
Vullo et al. 2011 2 specimens
MA FDB 4, FDB 5
Ophidia informal indet. B Latreille 1804
Vullo et al. 2011 1 specimen
MA FDB 6
Reptilia - Simoliophiidae
Simoliophis rochebrunei Sauvage 1880
Mammalia
? Marsupialia indet. Illiger 1811
Vullo and Néraudeau 2008 1 specimen
    = Arcantiodelphys marchandi n. gen., n. sp. Vullo and Gheerbrant 2009
Vullo and Gheerbrant 2009
MNHN CCH1-4
Actinopteri - Tetraodontiformes - Eotrigonodontidae
? Stephanodus sp. Zittel 1883
Actinopteri - Pachycormiformes - Pachycormidae
Protosphyraena sp. Leidy 1857
Actinopteri - Pycnodontiformes
Pycnodontiformes indet. Berg 1937
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes
Archingeayia sistaci n. gen., n. sp. Vullo et al. 2007
Vullo et al. 2007
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Sclerorhynchidae
? Micropristis sp. Cappetta 1980
Onchopristis dunklei McNulty and Slaughter 1962
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Ptychotrygonidae
Ptychotrygonoides pouiti Landemaine 1991
Ptychotrygon sp. Jaekel 1894
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes
Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi (Thurmond 1971)
Turoniabatis cappettai Landemaine 1991
Hamrabatis bernardezi Vullo et al. 2007
Vullo et al. 2007
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Protoscyliorhinus magnus Landemaine 1991
Vullo et al. 2007
Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Hemiscylliidae
cf. Almascyllium sp. Cappetta 1980
    = Almascyllium sp. Cappetta 1980
Vullo et al. 2007
Chiloscyllium sp. Müller and Henle 1837
Vullo et al. 2007
Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Ginglymostomatidae
Cantioscyllium aff. decipiens Woodward 1889
    = Cantioscyllium sp. Woodward 1889
Vullo et al. 2007
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Odontaspididae
Cenocarcharias tenuiplicatus (Cappetta and Case 1975)
Vullo et al. 2007
recombined as Eostriatolamia tenuiplicatus
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Scapanorhynchus minimus Landemaine 1991
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Haimirichiidae
Carcharias amonensis (Cappetta and Case 1975)
recombined as Haimirichia amonensis
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Squalicorax sp. Whitley 1939
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Pseudoscapanorhynchidae
Cretodus semiplicatus (Agassiz 1843)
Vullo et al. 2007
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834
Tribodus morlati (Landemaine 1991)
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Polyacrodontidae
Polyacrodus sp. Jaekel 1889
Vullo et al. 2007
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
Cyclothyris compressa (Valenciennes 1819)
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Cnismatocentridae
Terebratula biplicata Sowerby 1812
recombined as Nucleatina biplicata
Stenolaemata - Cyclostomata - Eleidae
Meliceritites sp. (Sepkoski 1902)
synonym of Meliceritites
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia
Ptygmatis aff. requieniana
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
Harpagodes incerta (d'Orbigny 1842)
synonym of Harpagodes nodosus
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Rastellum carinatum (Lamarck 1806)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum (Lamarck 1801)
Ceratostreon flabellatum (Goldfuss 1833)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Granocardium cf. productum (Sowerby 1832)
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Ichthyosarcolitidae
Ichthyosarcolites triangularis Desmarest 1822
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Sphaerulites foliaceus Lamarck 1819
Praeradiolites fleuriaui
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Ellipsosmilia cornucopia
spelled with current rank as Trochosmilia (Ellipsosmilia)
Orbitolinidae
Orbitolina conica
Orbitolina concava (Lamarck 1816)
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Poitou-Charentes County:Charente-Maritime
Coordinates: 45.9° North, 0.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.7° North, 1.4° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Cenomanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 5
Key time interval:Early/Lower Cenomanian
Age range of interval:100.50000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "Cénomanien basal"; from subunits B1c1-3 and B1c1-4
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandy "limestone"
Secondary lithology:white lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "sables calcaires à tendance lumachellique... de couleur blanche ou beige" (B1c1-3) and "faciès blanc plus cimenté... d’aspect non coquillier, mais plutôt grenu"
Environment:lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal
Geology comments: "infralittoral proximal"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Fragmentation:occasional
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:"gisement numéro 21 de Néraudeau et Moreau (1989)"
Metadata
Database number:73862
Authorizer:J. Alroy, M. Carrano, P. Mannion, M. Clapham Enterer:J. Alroy, M. Clapham, M. Carrano, P. Mannion
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-07-07 20:35:14 Last modified:2019-10-28 16:02:26
Access level:the public Released:2007-07-07 20:35:14
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
24782. R. Vullo, D. Néraudeau, and B. Videt. 2003. Un faciès de type falun dans le Cénomanien basal de Charente-Maritime (France). Annales de Paléontologie 89(3):171-189 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

76284 E. Puértolas-Pascual, A. Blanco, C. A. Brochu and J. I. Canudo. 2016. Review of the Late Cretaceous-early Paleogene crocodylomorphs of Europe: Extinction patterns across the K-PG boundary. Cretaceous Research 57:565-590 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
73638 R. Vullo, H. Cappetta, and D. Néraudeau. 2007. New sharks and rays from the Cenomanian and Turonian of Charentes, France. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 52:99-116 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
35176ETE R. Vullo and E. Gheerbrant. 2009. The oldest modern therian mammal from Europe and its bearing on stem marsupial paleobiogeography. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106(47):19910-19915 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
26151ETE R. Vullo, D. Neraudeau, and T. Lenglet. 2007. Dinosaur teeth from the Cenomanian of Charentes, western France: evidence for a mixed Laurasian-Gondwanan assemblage. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(4):931-943 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
29837 R. Vullo and D. Néraudeau. 2008. Cenomanian vertebrate assemblages from southwestern France: a new insight into the European mid-Cretaceous continental fauna. Cretaceous Research 29(5-6):930-935 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
29832ETE R. Vullo and D. Neraudeau. 2009. Pterosaur remains from the Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) paralic deposits of Charentes, western France. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(1):277-282 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
70675 R. Vullo and D. Néraudeau. 2010. Additional dinosaur teeth from the Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) of Charentes, southwestern France. Comptes Rendus Palevol 9(3):121-126 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
36357ETE R. Vullo, J.-C. Rage, and D. Neraudeau. 2011. Anuran and squamate remains from the Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) of Charentes, western France. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31(2):279-291 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]