Beynes (Defrance collection) (Eocene of France)

Where: France (48.9° N, 1.9° E: paleocoordinates 45.7° 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: lithology not reported

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. 1804. Suite des mémoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 3:343-352 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 184145: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.02.2017

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Natica labellata Lamarck 1804 moon snail
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Cerithium confluens n. sp. Lamarck 1804 cerith snail
Cerithium turritellatum n. sp. Lamarck 1804 cerith snail
Cerithium clavus n. sp. Lamarck 1804 cerith snail
Cerithium cinctum Bruguière 1792 cerith snail
Cerithium bacillum n. sp. Lamarck 1804 cerith snail
Cerithium mitra Lamarck 1804 cerith snail
Cerithium trochiforme n. sp. Lamarck 1804 cerith snail