Tuilerie de Gan (Pacaud collection) (Eocene of France)

Where: France (43.2° N, 0.4° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 1.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• 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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; unlithified, gray marl and claystone

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

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collected by Pacaud; reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: B. Caze, D. Merle, J. M. Pacaud and J. P. Saint Martin. 2010. First systematic study using the variability of the residual colour patterns: the case of the Paleogene Seraphsidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Stromboidea). Geodiversitas 32(3):417-477 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 183745: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.01.2017

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Seraphsidae
Paraseraphs tetanus
Paraseraphs tetanus Jung 1974 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Eocypraeidae
Luponovula merlei
Luponovula merlei Dolin and Ledon 2002 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Ovulidae
Simnia pacaudi n. sp.
Simnia pacaudi n. sp. Dolin and Ledon 2002 snail