Nogent-sur-Marne (Lamarck collection) (Eocene of France)

Where: France (48.8° N, 2.5° E: paleocoordinates 45.7° N, 1.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• Presumably the Lutetian Limestone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the MNHN

• Repository: Lamarck collection (some Lamarck types are at MNHN Paris, but other parts of his collection are at the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle Genève)

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 184148: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.02.2017

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Cerithium columnare n. sp. Lamarck 1804 cerith snail