Highway A10, France (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (45.4° N, 4.2° E: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 5.2° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: carbonate

Primary reference: A. V. Dhondt. 1985. Late Cretaceous Bivalves from the A10 Exposures in Northern Aquitaine. Cretaceous Research 6:33-74 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3742: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 09.08.1999, edited by Mihaela Krause

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Trigonia sp. Bruguière 1789 clam
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea sp. Lamarck 1801 clam
 Arcida - Arcidae
Arca sp. Linnaeus 1758 ark
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
cf. Chlamys royana scallop
originally entered as "Chlamys cf. royana"
 Pectinida - Limidae
Limea sp. Bronn 1831 file clam
Plagiostoma hoperi Mantell 1822 file clam
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum Lamarck 1801 oyster
"Pycnodonte vesiculare" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Rastellum sp. Faujas-St.-Fond 1799 oyster