Charentes-Perigord, Bourg-des-Maisons Formation: Late/Upper Turonian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Praeradiolites ponsi
Biradiolites quadratus
Biradiolites angulosus d'Orbigny 1850
Radiolites praesauvagesi
Radiolites trigeri
Radiolites peroni
Radiolites radiosus
Durania cornupastoris (Des Moulins 1826)
Sphaerulites patera
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
Vaccinites petrocoriensis
Vaccinites praepetrocoriensis
Hippurites requieni
see common names

Geography
Country:France
Coordinates: 45.5° North, 0.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.3° North, 1.9° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Turonian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Turonian
Age range of interval:93.90000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Bourg-des-Maisons
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified packstone
Lithology description: bioclastic wackestone and packstone
Environment:perireef or subreef
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:74223
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-07-31 03:32:36 Last modified:2007-07-31 06:32:36
Access level:the public Released:2007-07-31 03:32:36
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
24927. J. P. Platel. 1998. The Turonian rudist-bearing carbonate platforms of the Charentes and Perigord areas, Aquitaine Basin (France). Geobios, Memoire special 22:295-311 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]