Where: Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France (43.9° N, 5.6° E: paleocoordinates 44.0° N, 4.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
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 88799: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.04.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gymnolaemata | |
Celleporaria palmata Michelin 1847 | |
Anthozoa | |
Culicia parasita Michelin 1847 stony coral |