PBDB Collection

Tuilerie de Gan (Dolin 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: 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 C. Dolin

• Repository: Pteropods at Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis, Department of Geology, Leiden

Primary reference: B. Cahuzac and A. W. Janssen. 2010. Eocene to Miocene holoplanktonic Mollusca (Gastropoda) of the Aquitaine Basin, southwest France. Scripta geologica 141:1-193 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 183747: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.01.2017

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
Sorbeoconcha - Eocypraeidae	"Eocypraea (Transovula) acuminata" = Transovula acuminata¹, "Prionovolva (Grovesia) ganensis n. sp." = Grovesia ganensis², "Eocypraea (Eocypraea) moumieti n. sp." = Sulcocypraea moumieti¹, Luponovula merlei n. sp.² "Eocypraea (Transovula) acuminata" = Transovula acuminata¹ Melleville 1843 snail ssp. eugenei "Prionovolva (Grovesia) ganensis n. sp." = Grovesia ganensis² Dolin and Ledon 2002 snail "Eocypraea (Eocypraea) moumieti n. sp." = Sulcocypraea moumieti¹ Dolin and Dolin 1983 snail Later at University Pierre et Marie Curie Luponovula merlei n. sp.² Dolin and Ledon 2002 snail
Sorbeoconcha - Pediculariidae	"Cypraedia interposita" = Cypraedia (Protocypraedia) interposita¹ "Cypraedia interposita" = Cypraedia (Protocypraedia) interposita¹ Deshayes 1865 snail
Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae	Gisortia gigantea¹, "Vicetia hantkeni" = Gisortia (Vicetia) hantkeni¹ Gisortia gigantea¹ Munster 1828 cowry "Vicetia hantkeni" = Gisortia (Vicetia) hantkeni¹ Lefèvre 1878 cowry
Thecosomata -	Camptoceratops priscus Camptoceratops priscus Godwin-Austen 1882 snail
Thecosomata - Limacinidae	Limacinidae "sp. 2", Heliconoides auriformis, Limacina gormani, Altaspiratella bearnensis, Altaspiratella multispira Limacinidae "sp. 2" Blainville 1823 snail Heliconoides auriformis Curry 1982 snail Limacina gormani Curry 1982 snail Altaspiratella bearnensis Curry 1982 snail Altaspiratella multispira Curry 1982 snail
Thecosomata -	Euchilotheca ganensis Euchilotheca ganensis Curry 1982 snail

¹Dolin and Dolin 1983; ²Dolin and Ledon 2002