Bois-Gouet (Eocene to of France)

Where: Loire-Atlantique, France (47.5° N, 1.6° W: paleocoordinates 44.7° N, 5.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Faluns de Bois-Gouët Formation, Lutetian to Lutetian (47.8 - 38.0 Ma)

• Was Lutetian - Bartonian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Filliozat. 1914. Polypiers Eocenes de la Loire-inferieure. Bulletin de la Societe des Sciences Naturelles de l'Ouest de la France 4:67-80 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122893: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.01.2012, edited by Pete Wagner and Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
 Scleractinia - Oculinidae
Madrepora bureaui n. sp. Filliozat 1914 stony coral
Madrepora vasseuri n. sp. Filliozat 1914 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
Circophyllia truncata Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Turbinoliidae
Turbinolia vaughani n. sp. Filliozat 1914 stony coral
Turbinolia aff. fredericiana7 Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral
Turbinolia dispar Defrance 1828 stony coral
Sphenotrochus granulosus Defrance 1828 stony coral
Sphenotrochus dumasi n. sp. Filliozat 1914 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Parasmilia altavillensis Defrance 1817 stony coral
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
Eutritonium (Monocirsus) namnetense4 Cossmann 1902 triton shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
"Cypraea (Bernayia) bartonensis" = Eopustularia bartonensis3, "Cypraea (Luponia) aequipartita" = Eotrivia recluzi5
"Cypraea (Bernayia) bartonensis" = Eopustularia bartonensis3 Edwards 1854 cowry
"Cypraea (Luponia) aequipartita" = Eotrivia recluzi5 Cossmann 1897 cowry
 Sorbeoconcha - Littorinidae
"Littorina mumiola" = Gouetina mumiola1, "Littorinopsis (Styloplocus) amorica" = Littoraria (Styloplocus) amorica6
"Littorina mumiola" = Gouetina mumiola1 Cossmann 1899 periwinkle
"Littorinopsis (Styloplocus) amorica" = Littoraria (Styloplocus) amorica6 Vasseur 1881 periwinkle
 Sorbeoconcha - Elachisinidae
Bivalvia
 Solemyida - Nucinellidae
Nucinella pissarroi n. sp.8 Cossmann 1904 Nut Clam