Grignon (Richard collection) (Eocene of France)

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

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Ficidae
Pyrula clathrata n. sp. Lamarck 1803 fig shell
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Murex cancellinus n. sp. Lamarck 1803 murex snail