Sample IV 118.0, Tercis-les-Bains (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Landes, France (43.7° N, 1.1° W: paleocoordinates 35.9° N, 0.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pachydiscus neubergicus ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 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 214106: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.09.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
"Cretirhynchia retracta" = Cretirhynchia (Cretirhynchia) retracta
"Cretirhynchia retracta" = Cretirhynchia (Cretirhynchia) retracta Roemer 1841