Sample A1, fossil estuary, pont de Tancarville (Pleistocene of France)

Where: Haute-Normandie Region, France (49.5° N, 0.5° E: paleocoordinates 49.5° N, 0.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• Middle Pleistocene, Riss or close to the Mindel-Riss interglacial

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; claystone

• polyhedric clay

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: J. P. Lautridou and J. -J. Puissegur. 1977. Donnees nouvelles sur les microfaunes malacologiques et sur les rongeurs du Pleistocene continental de la Basse-Seine. Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de Normandie et des Amis du Museum du Havre 64(4):119-128 [E. Fara/E. Fara/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 36390: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 28.01.2004

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Arianta sp., Bradybaena sp.
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Pupilla muscorum
Pupilla muscorum Linnaeus 1758 snail
 Stylommatophora - Hygromiidae
"Trichia hispida" = Trochulus
"Trichia hispida" = Trochulus slug
 Stylommatophora - Limacidae
Limax sp.
Limax sp. Linnaeus 1758 slug
 Stylommatophora - Oxychilidae
Oxychilus sp.
Oxychilus sp. Fitzinger 1833 slug
 Stylommatophora - Clausiliidae
Clausilia sp.
Clausilia sp. Draparnaud 1805 slug
 Stylommatophora - Succineidae
Succinea sp.
Succinea sp. Draparnaud 1801 amber snail
non S. oblonga
 Heterostropha - Valvatidae
Valvata piscinalis, Valvata cristata
Valvata piscinalis Müller 1774 snail
Valvata cristata Müller 1774 snail