Courtagnon (Montfort collection) (Eocene of France)

Where: France (49.1° N, 3.9° E: paleocoordinates 46.0° N, 0.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Denys Montfort; reposited in the MNHN

• Repository: Lamarck collection (some of which is now at MNHN Paris)

Primary reference: J. B. Lamarck. 1802. Suite des mémoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 1:383-391 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 184114: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.02.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Olividae
Oliva canalifera n. sp. Lamarck 1802 olive snail