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
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: original aragonite
Collected by G. O'Gorman
• Repository: Université de Bordeaux (UBT)
Primary reference: L. Dolin and D. Ledon. 2002. Nouveaux taxons et discussion de la systématique des genres correspondants d’Ovulidae (Mollusca, Caenogastropoda) de l’Éocène inférieur de Gan (France). Geodiversitas 24(2):329-347 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 183755: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.01.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Prionovolva (Grovesia) ganensis" = Grovesia ganensis, "Cypraea (Eocypraea) rouaulti n. sp." = Luponovula rouaulti1, Luponovula quaggiottoi n. sp.2, Luponovula merlei
"Prionovolva (Grovesia) ganensis" = Grovesia ganensis Dolin and Ledon 2002 snail
Luponovula merlei Dolin and Ledon 2002 snail |