Maulette, near Houdan (Deshayes collection) (Eocene of France)

Where: France (48.8° N, 1.6° E: paleocoordinates 45.6° N, 1.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: NP15 nannofossil zone, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• Middle Lutetian, parasequence A7 (Neige et al., 2016)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; unlithified, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collection methods: Repository: personal collection of Deshayes (material apparently lost)

Primary reference: G. P. Deshayes. 1824. Description des Coquilles Fossiles des Environs de Paris, Tome Second: Mollusques 1-80 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 184836: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.03.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cyclostoma
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Cyclostoma inflata n. sp. Deshayes 1824