Martignas-sur-Jalle (Miocene of France)

Where: Aquitaine, France (44.8° N, 0.8° W: paleocoordinates 45.0° N, 2.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified marl

• limestone and sandy-calcareous marls, rich in bryozoans

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. Chaix and B. Cahuzac. 2005. Le genre Culicia (Scleractiniaire): systematique, ecologie et biogeographie au Cenozoique [The genus Culicia (Scleractinia): systematics, ecology and biogeography in the Cenozoic]. Eclogae Geologica Helvetiae 98:169-187 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 88798: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.04.2009

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Lepraliellidae
Celleporaria palmata Michelin 1847
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Crassadoma multistriata" = Talochlamys multistriata Poli 1795 scallop
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 oyster
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Rhizangiidae
Culicia parasita Michelin 1847 stony coral