Memorial of Coudehard, Mont-Ormel (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (48.8° N, 0.1° E: paleocoordinates 37.6° N, 1.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Sables de Mont-Ormel Member (Craie glauconieuse Formation), Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; poorly lithified, glauconitic, yellow, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: G. Breton. 2008. Une carapace de crabe préservée dans le moule interne d'un gastéropode du Cénomanien de Basse-Normandie (France). L'écho des falaises 12:51-57 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 85020: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 21.11.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Mantelliceras mantelli Sowerby 1814 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Schloenbachiidae
Schloenbachia varians Sowerby 1817 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Sciponoceras sp. Hyatt 1894 ammonite
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
Cymatoceras radiatum Sowerby 1822 nautiloid
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Neithea quinquecostata Sowerby 1814 scallop
"Neithea aequicostata" = Neithea (Neithea) aequicostata Lamarck 1819 scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Spondylus striatus" = Spondylus subnodosus
"Spondylus striatus" = Spondylus subnodosus Packard 1922 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima cf. aspera file clam
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
"Inoceramus cf. pictus" = Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus
"Inoceramus cf. pictus" = Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus Sowerby 1829 clam
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Necrocarcinidae
Necrocarcinus labeschii Eudes-Deslongchamps 1835 crab
 Decapoda - Feldmanniidae
Caloxanthus formosus Milne-Edwards 1864 crab
Echinoidea
 Cassiduloida - Cassidulidae
 Holasteroida - Holasteridae
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Hemiaster bufo Brongniart 1822 heart urchin
 Holectypoida -
 Holectypoida - Discoididae
Discoides subuculus Leske 1778 sea urchin
 Euechinoidea - Pseudodiadematidae
Tetragramma variolare Brongniart 1822 sea urchin
Polydiadema bonei sea urchin
 Salenioida - Hyposaleniidae
 Calycina -
 Calycina - Phymosomatidae
Calcarea
 Lithonida - Minchinellidae
Porosphaera sp. Steinmann 1878 calcareous sponge
Porosphaera globularis Phillips 1829 calcareous sponge