Roquefort, bassin de l'Adour (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (44.7° N, 0.3° W: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 0.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• Upper Maastrichtian

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: A. F. Poignant and P. L. Blanc. 1974. Les algues calcaires du Crétacé Supérieur des rides de Villagrains, Landiras et Roquefort, Creon (Aquitaine Centrale). Géobios (7)71-75 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 145809: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 11.06.2013

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Taxonomic list

Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Meandropsinidae
Foraminifera
 Rotaliina - Lepitorbitoididae
 Planorbulinacea - Planorbulinidae
 Rotaliacea - Calcarinidae
 Orbitoidacea - Orbitoididae
Orbitoides apiculata Schlumberger 1901
Orbitoides media d'Archiac 1837
  -
Florideophyceae
 Hapalidiales - Corallinophycidae
Mesophyllum sp. Lemoine 1930
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Lithoporella sp. Foslie 1909
"Pseudolithothamnium album" = Polystrata alba Pfender 1936
abundant specimens
Lithophyllum sp. Philippi 1837