Mercin-et-Vaux, Aisne (Retout collection) (Eocene of France)

Where: France (49.4° N, 3.3° E: paleocoordinates 44.8° N, 0.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• "Cuisian"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Retout; reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: J. M. Pacaud, D. Merle, and J. Pons. 2013. Nouvelles espèces d'Ancillariinae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Olividae) du Paléogène des bassins de Paris et d'Aquitaine. Cossmanniana 15:27-73 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 183800: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.01.2017

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Ancillariidae
Amalda atrebatum Wrigley 1940 snail