Where: France (48.8° N, 1.9° E: paleocoordinates 45.7° N, 1.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: NP15 nannofossil zone, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)
• The sediments from the "Falunière de Grignon" are correlated of the Middle Lutetian, according to the identification of biozone NP15 (Aubry 1985). They belong to the regional Zone III and the base of Zone IV of Abrard (1925) and correspond to parasequences A6-A10 of Gely (1996).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; unlithified, calcareous sandstone and unlithified, glauconitic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite
Collection methods: Repository: cabinet of citoyen Richard
Primary reference: J. B. Lamarck. 1803. Suite des mémoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 2:217-227 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 184136: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.02.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Pyrula clathrata n. sp.
Pyrula clathrata n. sp. Lamarck 1803 fig shell | |
Murex cancellinus n. sp.
Murex cancellinus n. sp. Lamarck 1803 murex snail |