Where: France (43.6° N, 1.3° W: paleocoordinates 43.8° N, 2.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified marl
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: C. Chaix and B. Cahuzac. 2005. Les faunes de Scleractiniaires dans les faluns du Miocene moyen d'Atlantique-Est (bassins de la Loire et d'Aquitaine): paleobiogeographie et evolution climatique [The faunas of Scleractinian corals in the faluns of the Eastern Atlantic Middle Miocene (Loire and Aquitaine Basins): paleobiogeography and climatic evolution]. Annales de Paleontologie 91:33-72 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 70313: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.03.2007, edited by Mihaela Krause
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Stylophora rugosa d'Archiac 1848 stony coral | |
Goniopora decaturensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
Antiguastrea sp. Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Antiguastrea alveolaris Catullo 1856 stony coral
Tarbellastraea reussiana Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral | |
Heliastrea (Athecastraea) vesiculosa, Heliastrea (Heliastrea) saubriguensis, Heliastrea (Heliastrea) parva
Heliastrea (Athecastraea) vesiculosa Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral
Heliastrea (Heliastrea) saubriguensis Chevalier 1961 stony coral
Heliastrea (Heliastrea) parva Chevalier 1961 stony coral | |
Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) laterocristatus Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
"Cylindrophyllia duncani" = Peponocyathus duncani, Sphenotrochus intermedius
"Cylindrophyllia duncani" = Peponocyathus duncani Reuss 1871 stony coral
Sphenotrochus intermedius stony coral | |
Flabellum cristatum Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
Flabellum basteroti Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Gastropoda | |
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