Where: Picardie, France (49.2° N, 2.0° E: paleocoordinates 47.1° N, 2.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: NP 16-17 nannofossil zone, Cresnes Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• The Cresnes and Marines sands are referred to the middle Eocene, and more precisely to either the NP 16 biozone (Aubry 1988) or the NP 17 biozone (Aubry 1983, 1988 ; Cavelier & Pomerol 1983). Auversian.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coarse-grained sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Le Renard and J.-M. Pacaud. 1995. Révision des Mollusques Paléogénes du Bassin de Paris. II - Liste des Références primaries des espécies. Cossmanniana 3(3):65-132 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178082: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 16.04.2016

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