Orthez (Le Paren) (Miocene of France)

Where: France (43.5° N, 0.7° W: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 1.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: NN6-7 zone, Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)

• NN6-7 zones

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; poorly lithified, calcareous sandstone

• grey shelly sands

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. Cahuzac and A. W. Janssen. 2010. Eocene to Miocene holoplanktonic Mollusca (Gastropoda) of the Aquitaine Basin, southwest France. Scripta geologica 141:1-193 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 171345: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 07.07.2015, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Thecosomata - Limacinidae
Limacina valvatina Reuss 1867 snail
Heliconoides ? inflata Orbigny 1836 snail
 Thecosomata - Cavoliniidae
Clio ortheziana Benoist 1889 snail
Creseis spina Reuss 1867 snail
Edithinella varanica Sirna 1968 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Triviidae
"Trivia michelottii" = Trivia (Trivia) michelottii
"Trivia michelottii" = Trivia (Trivia) michelottii Dollfus and Dautzenberg 1886 snail