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 | |
Stylocoenia emarciata stony coral
Stylocoenia monticularia stony coral | |
Madrepora gervillii stony coral
Madrepora bureaui n. sp. Filliozat 1914 stony coral
Madrepora vasseuri n. sp. Filliozat 1914 stony coral | |
Circophyllia truncata Goldfuss 1826 stony coral | |
Turbinolia vaughani n. sp., Turbinolia aff. fredericiana7, Turbinolia dispar, Sphenotrochus granulosus, Sphenotrochus dumasi n. sp.
Turbinolia vaughani n. sp. Filliozat 1914 stony coral
Turbinolia dispar Defrance 1828 stony coral
Sphenotrochus granulosus Defrance 1828 stony coral
Sphenotrochus dumasi n. sp. Filliozat 1914 stony coral | |
Parasmilia altavillensis Defrance 1817 stony coral | |
Gastropoda | |
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"Cypraea (Bernayia) bartonensis" = Eopustularia bartonensis3, "Cypraea (Luponia) aequipartita" = Eotrivia recluzi5
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"Littorina mumiola" = Gouetina mumiola1, "Littorinopsis (Styloplocus) amorica" = Littoraria (Styloplocus) amorica6
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Bivalvia | |
Nucinella pissarroi n. sp.8
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