Where: Picardie, France (49.9° N, 4.2° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 34.3° N, 24.0° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Calcaires marno-crayeux superieurs Formation, Middle Bathonian to Middle Bathonian (168.2 - 165.3 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified marl and lithified chalk
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: J. -C. Fischer. 1969. Geologie, Paleontologie et Paleoecologie du Bathonien au sud-ouest du Massif Ardennais. Memoires du Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle, Nouvelle Serie, Serie C, Sciences de la terre 20:1-319 [R. Krause/R. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 96170: authorized by Rich Krause, entered by Rich Krause on 19.05.2010
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
| Bivalvia | |
Sphaeriola madridi, Cavilucina subgeometrica, Cavilucina orbignyana, Cavilucina bellona, Fimbria lajoyei
Sphaeriola madridi d'Archiac 1843 clam
Cavilucina subgeometrica Fischer 1969 clam
Cavilucina orbignyana d'Archiac 1843 clam
Cavilucina bellona d'Orbigny 1850 clam
Fimbria lajoyei d'Archiac 1843 clam | |
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Homomya gibbosa Sowerby 1814 clam | |
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Eocallista antiopoa clam | |
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Anisocardia beaumonti d'Archiac 1843 clam | |
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Protocardia stricklandi Morris and Lycett 1853 cockle
Protocardia lingulata Lycett 1863 cockle | |
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Myophorella spiculifera Fischer 1969 clam | |
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Trigonia pullus Sowerby 1826 clam | |
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Lithophaga fabella Eudes-Deslongchamps 1838 mussel | |
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Lima bynei Cox and Arkell 1948 file clam
Limatula cerealis Douglas and Arkell 1932 file clam | |
"Chlamys vagans" = Radulopecten vagans, Camptonectes laminatus
"Chlamys vagans" = Radulopecten vagans Sowerby 1826 scallop
Camptonectes laminatus Sowerby 1818 scallop | |
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Ostrea wiltonensis Lycett 1863 oyster
Lopha costata Sowerby 1825 oyster | |
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Nanogyra crassa Smith 1819 oyster | |
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Costigervillia quincarinata Fischer 1969 oyster | |
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Eonavicula minuta Sowerby 1824 clam
Eonavicula gibbosa Rollier 1912 clam | |
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Parallelodon hirsonensis d'Archiac 1843 clam | |