Echinodermata, Unit B2-B3, La Guérie nord, Charente-Maritime (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (46.0° N, 0.9° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 42.0° N, 14.8° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal grainstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: D. Néraudeau and P. Moreau. 1996. Paléoécologie et paléobiogéographie des faunes d'échinides du Cénomanien nord-aquitain (Charente-Maritime, France). Géobios 22(3):293-324 [L. Villier/L. Villier/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 59814: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 13.04.2006

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Taxonomic list

Asteroidea
 Valvatida - Goniasteridae
Caletaster romani Breton 1988 sea star
Echinoidea
 Arbacioida - Arbaciidae
Goniopygus menardi Desmarest in Defrance 1925 sea urchin
Codiopsis doma Desmarest 1825 sea urchin
 Calycina -
Cottaldia benettiae Koenig 1825 sea urchin
 Salenioida - Hyposaleniidae
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Periaster elatus heart urchin
 Irregularia - Nucleolitidae
 Cassiduloida - Cassidulidae
Nucleopygus similis d'Orbigny 1856 sea urchin
 Holectypoida -
 Holectypoida - Holectypidae
Coenholectypus excisus Desor 1847 sea urchin