Rottier (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (44.5° N, 5.4° E: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 14.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified limestone

• 0,70 m; pale pink limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Kiel, K. A. Campbell, and C. Gaillard. 2010. New and little known mollusks from ancient chemosynthetic environments. Zoootaxa 2390:26-48 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 205202: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 08.10.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Tehamatea vocontiana n. sp. Kiel 2013 clam
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Hokkaidoconchidae
Humptulipsia macsotayi n. sp. Kiel et al. 2010 snail