Marne glauconieuse de Chateau (Cretaceous to of France)

Where: France (45.0° N, 0.4° E: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 2.1° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Marne glauconieuse du Chateau Member (Craie de Villedieu Formation), Coniacian to Coniacian (89.8 - 83.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: hardground, glauconitic carbonate

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: I. Jarvis, A. Gale, and C. Clayton. 1982. Litho- and biostratigraphical observations on the type sections of the Craie de Villedieu Formation (Upper Cretaceous, western France). Newsletters on Stratigraphy 11(2):64-82 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3736: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 09.08.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam
Volviceramus ex gr. involutus Sowerby 1828 clam
originally entered as "Volviceramus ex gr. involutus"
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758 scallop
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Pycnodonte vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster
Ceratostreon sp. Bayle 1878 oyster
"Ceratostreon spinosum" = Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) pliciferum Dujardin 1837 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
 Terebratulida - Cancellothyrididae
Terebratulina sp. d'Orbigny 1847
originally entered as "Terbratulina sp."
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Onychocellidae
Onychocella sp. Jullien 1882
Stenolaemata
 Cyclostomata - Eleidae
 Cyclostomata - Cytididae
Homoeosolen sp. Lonsdale 1850
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
"Stereocidaris sp." = Temnocidaris (Stereocidaris) Pomel 1883 pencil urchin
Prionocidaris sp. Agassiz 1863 pencil urchin
 Spatangoida - Micrasteridae
Micraster decipiens heart urchin
 Spatangoida - Spatangidae
Epiaster laxoporus heart urchin
 Calycina - Phymosomatidae
Phymosoma sp. Haime 1853 sea urchin
Asteroidea
 Valvatida - Goniasteridae
Metopaster sp. Sladen 1893 sea star
 Ichnofossils -
Thalassinoides sp. Ehrenberg 1944