Uzeste (Gamachot), Villandraut, Berdigots (Miocene of France)

Where: France (44.5° N, 0.5° W: paleocoordinates 44.5° N, 2.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Falun de Bazas Formation, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• Earlymost Burdigalian

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, yellow, calcareous sandstone

• Infralittoral facies
• yellow-reddish calcareous sands, locally indurated, with few molluscs.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the MNHN

• COLLECTORS: Unknown. REPOSITORY: MNHN, Paris.

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 171367: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 09.07.2015, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to some families of Gastropoda. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritive publication with species level assignments.
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Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Lyncina cingulata n. sp., Mauritia (Mauritia) uzestensis n. sp.
Lyncina cingulata n. sp. Dolin and Lozouet 2004 cowry
Mauritia (Mauritia) uzestensis n. sp. Dolin and Lozouet 2004 cowry
 Thecosomata - Cavoliniidae
Vaginella depressa
Vaginella depressa Daudin 1800 snail