Moulin de l’Église, Saucats (Miocene of France)

Also known as Giraudot; Giraudeau

Where: France (44.7° N, 0.6° E: paleocoordinates 44.7° N, 1.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: N5 foram zone, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• probably upper part of the section (above the uppermost Aquitanian lacustrine limestone).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, yellow, calcareous sandstone

• Infralittoral facies
• shelly, orange calcareous sands

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Reposited in the MNHN

• Repository: other specimens probably at Natural History Museum, Bordeaux

Primary reference: A. Peyrot. 1933. Conchologie Néogénique de l'Aquitaine, Tome VI, Gastropodes (Suite). Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 85:5-71 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178524: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 06.05.2016, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Aturiidae
Aturia aturi Basterot 1825 nautiloid
Gastropoda
 Cavolinioidea - Cuvierinidae
Ireneia ? calandrellii1 Michelotti 1847 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Europicardium polycolpatum" = Cardium (Trachycardium) polycolpatum3
"Europicardium polycolpatum" = Cardium (Trachycardium) polycolpatum3 Cossmann and Peyrot 1911 cockle