Bezoye "Ruisseau", St-Paul-les-Dax (Oligocene of France)

Where: France (43.8° N, 1.1° W: paleocoordinates 43.5° N, 3.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: SBZ23 foram zone, Marnes de Saint-Etienne-d’Orthe Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• Cahuzac & Janssen (2010) put it in SBZ23 and id the formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray, blue, calcareous sandstone

• Reefal coastal facies.
• faluns with corals and grey-blue shelly coarse-grained sands, locally indurated as sandstones.

•SBZ23 zone. (Cahuzac & Janssen 2010)

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: L. Dolin and P. Lozouet. 2004. Nouvelles espèces de Gastéropodes (Mollusca: Gastropoda) de l’Oligocène et du Miocène inférieur de l’Aquitaine (Sud-Ouest de la France). Partie 3. Cypraeidae et Ovulidae. Cossmanniana hors série 4:1-164 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 177708: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 08.04.2016

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Taxonomic list

• Corals present. (Betreten Sie sie, Wolfgang!)
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Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Ovulidae
Simnia limondinae n. sp.
Simnia limondinae n. sp. Dolin and Lozouet 2004 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Cypraeopsis (Cypraeopsis) aquensis n. sp., Luria (Tessellata) chattica n. sp., Praerosaria tabulata n. sp., Praerosaria biacuta n. sp., Praerosaria perlacea n. sp., Prozonarina regalis n. sp., Prozonarina barcamorpha n. sp., Plaziatia parasigmapertura n. sp., Ransonia tarbelliana, Ransonia coseli, Nucleolaria bezoyensis n. sp., Subepona herrerensis n. sp.
Cypraeopsis (Cypraeopsis) aquensis n. sp. Dolin and Lozouet 2004 cowry
Luria (Tessellata) chattica n. sp. Dolin and Lozouet 2004 cowry
Praerosaria tabulata n. sp. Dolin and Lozouet 2004 cowry
Praerosaria biacuta n. sp. Dolin and Lozouet 2004 cowry
Praerosaria perlacea n. sp. Dolin and Lozouet 2004 cowry
Prozonarina regalis n. sp. Dolin and Lozouet 2004 cowry
Prozonarina barcamorpha n. sp. Dolin and Lozouet 2004 cowry
Plaziatia parasigmapertura n. sp. Dolin and Lozouet 2004 cowry
Ransonia tarbelliana Dolin and Lozouet 2004 cowry
Ransonia coseli Dolin and Lozouet 2004 cowry
Nucleolaria bezoyensis n. sp. Dolin and Lozouet 2004 cowry
Subepona herrerensis n. sp. Dolin and Lozouet 2004 cowry
Foraminifera
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Miogypsinoides sp.