Chaumont (Defrance collection) (Eocene of France)

Where: France (49.3° N, 1.9° E: paleocoordinates 46.1° N, 1.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: carbonate

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the MNHN

• Repository: Defrance collection (some of which is now at Musée de Normandie, Caen, or at MNHN Paris)

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 184137: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.02.2017

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
"Fusus subcarinatus n. sp." = Lamarckofusus subcarinatus1
"Fusus subcarinatus n. sp." = Lamarckofusus subcarinatus1 Lamarck 1803 snail
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Murex textiliosus n. sp.
Murex textiliosus n. sp. Lamarck 1803 murex snail
 Thecosomata - Limacinidae
"Ampullaria pygmaea n. sp." = Limacina pygmaea2
"Ampullaria pygmaea n. sp." = Limacina pygmaea2 Lamarck 1804 snail
1Lamarck 1803; 2Lamarck 1804