Sample IV 109.1, Tercis-les-Bains (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Landes, France (43.7° N, 1.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 1.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Nostoceras hyatti ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Les Vignes Unit. Ammonites from the lower part of the unit belong to the topmost Campanian Nostoceras hyatti zone. The base of the Maastrichtian is at 115.2 m in the Les Vignes unit.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, cherty/siliceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. S. Odin. 2001. The Campanian-Maastrichtian stage boundary. Development in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy 19:1-881 [L. Villier/L. Villier/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 214103: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.09.2020

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Pleurotomarioidea - Pleurotomariidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Perissoptera "sp. 1" Tate 1865 snail