Acot, Gan (Eocene of France)

Where: France (43.2° N, 0.4° E: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 1.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: NP 12 foram zone, Marnes de Gan Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• Middle-Late Ypresian / Top NP 12 and NP 13 zone

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: unlithified, gray marl and unlithified, gray claystone

• circalittoral, quiet environment, whereas the upper part represents inner neritic environments.
• greyish-blue marls and clays, locally a little sandy

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Dolin

• Repository: Dolin collection (possibly donated to MNHN, or University Pierre et Marie Curie)

Primary reference: C. Dolin and L. Dolin. 1983. Révision des Triviacea et Cypraeacea (Mollusca, Prosobranchia) éocènes récoltés dans les localité de Gan (Tuilerie et Acot) et Bosdarros (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France). Mededelingen van de Werkgroep voor Tertiaire en Kwartaire Geologie 20(1):5-48 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179718: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 27.06.2016, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Archicypraea bellardiana
Archicypraea bellardiana Schilder 1932 cowry
 Sorbeoconcha - Eocypraeidae
? Eocypraea sp.
? Eocypraea sp. Cossmann 1903 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Pediculariidae
Cyproglobina parvulorbis
Cyproglobina parvulorbis de Gregorio 1880 snail