Laon (Aisne) (Eocene of France)

Where: Picardie, France (49.6° N, 3.6° E: paleocoordinates 45.0° N, 0.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: NP 12 nannofossil zone, Sables de Cuise Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• NP 12, P7 - P8

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by \; reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: M. M. Glibert. 1962. Les Mesogastropoda Fossiles du Cenozoïque étranger des Collections de L'Institute Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique: Cyclophoridae à Stilifetidae. Institute Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Memoire, 10th sériés 69:1-304 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178778: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 14.05.2016

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
 Cerithioidea - Pachychilidae
"Melanatria pyreniformis" = Moniquia pyreniformis
"Melanatria pyreniformis" = Moniquia pyreniformis Deshayes 1833 snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
"Turritella solanderi" = Haustator solanderi Mayer-Eymar 1877 turret shell
Turritella hybrida Deshayes 1832 turret shell
Omalaxis laudunensis turret shell
 Cerithioidea - Diastomatidae
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
"Megalocypraea tuberculosa" = Gisortia tuberculosa
"Megalocypraea tuberculosa" = Gisortia tuberculosa Duclos 1825 cowry
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Euspira tenuicula moon snail
Sinum (Sigaretotrema) clathratum Gmelin 1790 moon snail
Sinum (Sigaretotrema) clathratum levesquei
 Sorbeoconcha - Campanilidae
 Heterostropha - Architectonicidae