Sample II 7.1, Tercis-les-Bains (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Landes, France (43.7° N, 1.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 1.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• 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.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, glauconitic limestone

Size class: macrofossils

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

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 213816: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.09.2020

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Brachidontes sp.3 Swainson 1840 mussel
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Diplomoceratidae
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
Angaria sp.1 Röding 1798 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Arrhoges sp.1 Gabb 1868 snail