Grignon (Merle collection): Lutetian, France
collected by Merle
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Muricidae
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Crassimurex calcitrapa
(Lamarck 1803)
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Geography
| Country: | France |
| Coordinates: | 48.8° North, 1.9° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 45.7° North, 1.6° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Lutetian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
| Key time interval: | Lutetian | Nannofossil zone: | NP15 |
| Age range of interval: | 47.80000 - 41.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: The sediments from the "Falunière de Grignon" are correlated of the Middle Lutetian, according to the identification of biozone NP15 (Aubry 1985). They belong to the regional Zone III and the base of Zone IV of Abrard (1925) and correspond to parasequences A6-A10 of Gely (1996). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | unlithified calcareous sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | glauconitic unlithified sandstone |
| Environment: | open shallow subtidal |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original aragonite |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | MNHN |
| Collectors: | Merle |
Metadata
| Database number: | 184814 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2017-03-25 15:04:16 | Last modified: | 2017-03-25 15:04:16 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-03-25 15:04:16 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 61800. | D. Merle and J. M. Pacaud. 2002. The Early Paleogene muricids (Mollusca, Neogastropoda) from the Oiching beds (Haunsberg area, Salzburg, Austria): revision and addition to the knowledge of the evolution of the Paleocene and Lower Eocene Foirieria. Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und historische Geologie 42:3-14 [M. Clapham/V. Maciel/M. Uhen] |