Tuilerie de Gan (BMNH collection) (Eocene of France)

Where: France (43.2° N, 0.4° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 1.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Marnes de Gan Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• Middle-Late Ypresian / Top NP 12 and NP 13 zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; unlithified, gray marl and claystone

• circalittoral, quiet environment, whereas the upper part represents inner neritic environments.
• greyish-blue marls and clays, locally a little sandy

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: G. F. Elliott. 1954. New Brachiopoda from the Eocene of England, France and Africa. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Twelfth Series 7:721-728 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 171369: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 09.07.2015, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Thecosomata -
Camptoceratops priscus Godwin-Austen 1882 snail
Euchilotheca ganensis n. sp. Curry 1982 snail
Also includes Creseis cf. hastata in Curry, 1982
 Thecosomata - Limacinidae
Heliconoides merlei n. sp., "Spiratella paula n. sp." = Heliconoides paula, Heliconoides pyrenaica n. sp., "Spiratella auriformis n. sp." = Heliconoides auriformis, "Plotophysops multispira n. sp." = Altaspiratella multispira, "Plotophysops bearnensis n. sp." = Altaspiratella bearnensis, "Skaptotion cossmanni n. sp." = Currylimacina cossmanni, Limacina pygmaea, "Spiratella gormani n. sp." = Limacina gormani, ? Limacina vegrandis
Heliconoides merlei n. sp. Cahuzac and Janssen 2010 snail
Spiratella sp. in Curry, 1982
"Spiratella paula n. sp." = Heliconoides paula Curry 1982 snail
Heliconoides pyrenaica n. sp. Cahuzac and Janssen 2010 snail
Spiratella mercinensis in Curry, 1982
"Spiratella auriformis n. sp." = Heliconoides auriformis Curry 1982 snail
"Plotophysops multispira n. sp." = Altaspiratella multispira Curry 1982 snail
"Plotophysops bearnensis n. sp." = Altaspiratella bearnensis Curry 1982 snail
"Skaptotion cossmanni n. sp." = Currylimacina cossmanni Curry 1982 snail
Limacina pygmaea Lamarck 1804 snail
placed in Spiratella by Curry, 1982
"Spiratella gormani n. sp." = Limacina gormani Curry 1982 snail
? Limacina vegrandis Cahuzac and Janssen 2010 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Megathyrididae
Cistellarcula wrigleyi n. gen. n. sp.
Cistellarcula wrigleyi n. gen. n. sp. Elliott 1954