Saucats (Coquillière), Gironde (Miocene of France)

Where: France (44.6° N, 0.6° W: paleocoordinates 44.7° N, 2.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: N5 zone, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• Early Burdigalian / NN2 and lower SBZ25 zones

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, yellow sandstone and lithified siliciclastic

• Infralittoral facies.
• yellow 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 171360: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 08.07.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cavolinioidea - Cuvierinidae
Ireneia nieulandei Janssen 1995 snail
 Thecosomata - Limacinidae
Limacina valvatina Reuss 1867 snail
Limacina bulimoides Orbigny 1836 snail
Heliconoides inflata Orbigny 1836 snail
Heliconoides ? inflata Orbigny 1836 snail
 Thecosomata - Cavoliniidae
Vaginella depressa Daudin 1800 snail
Diacrolinia aquensis Grateloup 1827 snail
Cuvierina ? paronai Checchia-Rispoli 1921 snail