Highway A10, France: Santonian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Corbis striaticostata d'Orbigny 1844
recombined as Fimbria striaticostata
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Vultogryphaea laciniata (Nilson 1827)
Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum (Lamarck 1801)
Ceratostreon pliciferum (Dujardin 1837)
Pycnodonte hippopodium
Pycnodonte vesiculare hippopodium
Pycnodonte nikitini
Pycnodonte vesiculare nikitini
Pycnodonte proboscideum
Pycnodonte vesiculare proboscideum
Pycnodonte vesiculare (Lamarck 1806)
recombined as Pycnodonta vesicularis
"vesiculare s.s." - originally entered as "Pycnodonte vesiculare s.s."
Hyotissa semiplana (Sowerby 1825)
Gryphaeostrea canaliculata (Sowerby 1813)
original and current combination Chama canaliculata
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Rastellum sp. Faujas-St.-Fond 1799
Rastellum deshayesi (d'Orbigny 1853)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillia solenoides (Defrance 1820)
original and current combination Gervillia solenoidea
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Lyropecten ternatus (Muenster 1833)
Mimachlamys cretosa (Defrance 1822)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae
Spondylus santoniensis
Spondylus truncatus
Spondylus spinosus Schreibers 1793
Spondylus dutempleanus Orbigny 1847
synonym of Spondylus fimbriatus
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Terquemiidae
Spondylus latus Klipstein 1843
synonym of Newaagia obliquus
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Neitheidae
Neithea striatocostata (Goldfuss 1833)
Neithea regularis (Schlotheim 1813)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Ctenoides tecta
Plagiostoma maximum
Plagiostoma santonense
Plagiostoma hoperi Mantell 1822
Limea granulata
Lima dujardini
Bivalvia - Mytilida
Regoria defrenoyi
see common names

Geography
Country:France
Coordinates: 45.4° North, 4.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.4° North, 5.6° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Santonian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
*Epoch:Senonian
Key time interval:Santonian
Age range of interval:86.30000 - 83.60000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Local section:Highway A10
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic argillaceous "carbonate"
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:3746
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:K. Layou
Modifier:C. Visaggi Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-09 13:14:45 Last modified:2004-03-11 16:25:05
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:20
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

241. A. V. Dhondt. 1985. Late Cretaceous Bivalves from the A10 Exposures in Northern Aquitaine. Cretaceous Research 6:33-74 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou]