Estang (Gers) (Miocene of France)

Where: France (43.9° N, 0.1° W: paleocoordinates 43.9° N, 1.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified, shelly/skeletal, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collection methods: Repository: Natural History Museum, Bordeaux

Primary reference: A. Peyrot. 1933. Conchologie Néogénique de l'Aquitaine, Tome VI, Gastropodes (Suite). Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 85:5-71 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179860: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.07.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Aturiidae
Aturia aturi Basterot 1825 nautiloid