Where: Basse-Normandie, France (49.2° N, 1.3° W: paleocoordinates 49.3° N, 1.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• Pliocene III of Lauriat-Rage 1986
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: C. Chaix. 1989. Les Scleractiniaires du Pliocene de Normandie [Scleractinia from the Pliocene of Normandy]. Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Section C 11(1):3-13 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 84623: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.11.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Cryptangia woodi stony coral
Cryptangia reptans Chevalier 1961 stony coral | |
Sphenotrochus milletianus, "Eusthenotrochus sp." = Sphenotrochus
Sphenotrochus milletianus Defrance 1828 stony coral
"Eusthenotrochus sp." = Sphenotrochus Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Dendrophylliidae indet. Gray 1847 stony coral
Balanophyllia varians Reuss 1854 stony coral |