Ferme la Presseliere, Sceaux d'Anjou, Maine-et-Loire (Miocene of France)

Where: France (47.6° N, 0.6° W: paleocoordinates 47.7° N, 1.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Redonien Formation, Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. Fehse and B. Landau. 2001. Contributions to eratoid systematics Mollusca, Gastropoda , 2. Late Miocene Eratoidae from Sceaux d' Anjou Loire Basin, France , with descriptions of new taxa. Cainozoic Research 1(1-2):91-110 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 178265: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 28.04.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
"Cypraea andegavensis n. sp." = Schilderia andegavensis1
"Cypraea andegavensis n. sp." = Schilderia andegavensis1 Defrance 1826 cowry
 Sorbeoconcha - Eratoidae
Hespererato marqueti n. sp.2
Hespererato marqueti n. sp.2 Fehse and Landau 2002 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Triviidae
Erato britannica, Erato andecavica, Erato cooperi n. sp.2
Erato britannica Schilder 1933 snail
Erato andecavica Schilder 1933 snail
Erato cooperi n. sp.2 Fehse and Landau 2002 snail
1Dolin and Lozouet 2004; 2Fehse and Landau 2002