Tercis-les-Bains quarry (Cretaceous of France)

Also known as Tercis les Bains

Where: Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes, France (43.7° N, 1.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.8° N, 1.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Avezac Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• from between levels 68.5 (70) and 80.0

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collected by C. Normand, B. Cahuzac, E. Buffetaut in 1985, 1995

Collection methods: salvage, surface (float),

Primary reference: Y. Laurent, J. Le Loeuff, M. Bilotte, E. Buffetaut, and G. S. Odin. 2001. Campanian-Maastrichtian continental-marine connection at the Aquitaine-Pyrenees-Provence area (S France). In G. S. Odin (ed.), The Campanian-Maastrichtian Boundary. Developments in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy 19:657-674 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 178473: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 03.05.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Coccolithophyceae
 Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae
 Stephanolithiales - Stephanolithiaceae
Corollithion completum Perch-Nielsen 1973
 Arkhangelskiales - Arkhangelskiellaceae
Aspidolithus parcus
A. parcus parcus, A. parcus constrictus
Broinsonia dentata Bukry 1969
 Podorhabdales - Tubodiscaceae
Manivitella pemmatoidea Deflandre 1965
 Podorhabdales - Cretarhabdaceae
Cretarhabdus conicus Bramlette and Martini 1964
Retecapsa surirella Deflandre and Fert 1954
 Podorhabdales - Axopodorhabdaceae
 Podorhabdales - Prediscosphaeraceae
Prediscosphaera cretacea Arkhangelsky 1912
 Eiffellithales - Eiffellithaceae
 Eiffellithales - Chiastozygaceae
Placozygus sigmoides Romein 1979
Amphizygus brooksi
A. brooksi brooksi
Amphizygus minimus Bukry 1969
"Vekshinella aachena" = Staurolithites
Reinhardtites levis Prins and Sissingh 1977
"Zygodiscus spiralis" = Zeugrhabdotus spiralis Bramlette and Martini 1964
 Eiffellithales - Rhagodiscaceae
Rhagodiscus reniformis Perch-Nielsen 1973
  - Calyptrosphaeraceae
 Watznaueriales - Watznaueriaceae
 Braarudosphaerales - Polycyclolithaceae
Quadrum gartneri Prins and Perch-Nielsen 1977
Micula cubiformis Forchheimer 1972 coccolithophore
Micula decussata Vekshina 1959 coccolithophore
Reptilia
 Saurischia -
? Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878 sauropod
distal end, right humerus
Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878 sauropod
caudal vertebra, non-titanosaur
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
? Titanosauridae indet. Lydekker 1885 titanosaurid
caudal vertebrae