Estoti St-Paul-les-Dax (Oligocene of France)

Where: Landes, France (43.7° N, 1.1° W: paleocoordinates 43.5° N, 3.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: NP24, NP25 foram zone, Falun de St. Paul-les-Dax Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• On the basis of the calcareous nannoplankton these deposits are referred to the zones NP24 and NP25 that correspond with the Chattian (Cahuzac et al. 1995).

•Chattian, yellow-orange, shelly, calcareous sands or faluns, with hermatypic corals. P22 and SBZ23 zones

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified, shelly/skeletal, yellow, calcareous sandstone

• shallow-water calcareous facies with coral reefs

•yellow-orange, shelly, calcareous sands or faluns

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the MNHN

• Repository: University of Bourdeaux-1

Primary reference: M. A. Bitner, P. Lozouet, and B. Cahuzac. 2013. Upper Oligocene (Chattian) brachiopod fauna from the Aquitaine Basin, southwestern France and its paleoenviornmental implications. Geodiversitas 35(3):579-606 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152689: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 30.11.2013, edited by Mihaela Krause and Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Ransonia ferruginosa n. sp.2 Dolin and Lozouet 2004 cowry
Ransonia gofasi2 Dolin and Lozouet 2004 cowry
Subepona herrerensis2 Dolin and Lozouet 2004 cowry
Nucleolaria bezoyensis2 Dolin and Lozouet 2004 cowry
Luria (Tessellata) cahuzaci n. sp.2 Dolin and Lozouet 2004 cowry
Luria (Tessellata) castinea2 Dolin and Lozouet 2004 cowry
Luria (Tessellata) chattica2 Dolin and Lozouet 2004 cowry
Praerosaria herosae2 Dolin and Lozouet 2004 cowry
Praerosaria charlenae n. sp.2 Dolin and Lozouet 2004 cowry
? Prozonarina haueriana n. sp.2 Dolin and Lozouet 2004 cowry
Prozonarina regalis2 Dolin and Lozouet 2004 cowry
Plaziatia parasigmapertura2 Dolin and Lozouet 2004 cowry
Plaziatia estotiensis n. sp.2 Dolin and Lozouet 2004 cowry
Plaziatia amandula n. sp.2 Dolin and Lozouet 2004 cowry
 Sorbeoconcha - Pediculariidae
Jenneria (Jenneria) nodulosa2 Dolin and Lozouet 2004 Jenner's Cowry
 Thecosomata - Cavoliniidae
Vaginella tricuspidata1 Zorn and Janssen 1993 snail
Styliola subula1 Quoy and Gaimard 1827 snail
Creseis spina1 Reuss 1867 snail
 Thecosomata - Limacinidae
Heliconoides linneensis1 Janssen 2008 snail
Heliconoides hospes1 Rolle 1861 snail
 Cavolinioidea - Cuvierinidae
Rhynchonellata
 Thecideida - Thecideidae
Lacazella mediterranea Risso 1826
4 ventral valves
 Terebratulida - Megathyrididae
Megathiris detruncata Gmelin 1791
ventral valves
Argyrotheca bitnerae Dulai 2011
3 specimens, 2 ventral and six dorsal valves
Joania cordata Risso 1826
1 specimen and 5 dorsal valves