Epagnac, Angouleme: Early/Lower Santonian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Basiliolidae
Rhynchonella deformis Seguenza 1866
recombined as Streptaria deformis
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Sphaerulites coquandi
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Diploctenium epagnacensis n. sp. Alloiteau 1952
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Poitou-Charentes County:Charente
Coordinates: 45.7° North, 0.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.7° North, 2.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Santonian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Santonian
Age range of interval:86.30000 - 83.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:87463
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-03-18 02:12:13 Last modified:2009-03-18 04:12:13
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-08 10:39:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
29430. J. Alloiteau. 1952. Sur le genre Diploctenium Goldf. dans le Cretace superieur Francais [About the genus Diploctenium Goldf. in the Upper Cretaceous of France]. Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France 2:537-573 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]