Where: France (43.5° N, 2.7° E: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 0.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Marnes de Foncouverte Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• Ilerdian, which is early Ypresian

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, gray, sandy marl

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: replaced with calcite, replaced with pyrite

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• Repository: Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse

Primary reference: J. M. Pacaud and A. Leroy. 2006. Nouvelles espèces de Terebellopsis Leymerie, 1846 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Strombidae) de l'Éocène inférieur des Bassins de Paris et d'Aquitaine. Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève 25(2):633-641 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 177654: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 07.04.2016, edited by David Nicholson

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