Puts de Insurgés, Île Madame, Unit C4 (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (46.0° N, 1.1° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 1.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, argillaceous, silty wackestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: D. Néraudeau and G. Breton. 1993. Astérides du Cénomanien de Charente-Maritime (SW France). Géobios 26(1):105-120 [L. Villier/L. Villier/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 59819: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 14.04.2006, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Haimirichiidae
"Carcharias amonensis" = Haimirichia amonensis
"Carcharias amonensis" = Haimirichia amonensis Cappetta and Case 1975 mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Squalicorax sp. Whitley 1939 crow shark
Squalicorax cf. intermedius Glickman 1971 crow shark
Squalicorax baharijensis Stromer 1927 crow shark
 Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Scapanorhynchus minimus Landemaine 1991 goblin shark
 Lamniformes - Odontaspididae
Cenocarcharias rochbrunei Sauvage 1880 sand tiger shark
Asteroidea
 Valvatida - Goniasteridae
Metopaster parkinsoni Forbes 1848 sea star
Caletaster romani Breton 1988 sea star
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Ichthyosarcolitidae
Ichthyosarcolites triangularis Desmarest 1822 rudist