Highway A10, France (Cretaceous of France)
Where: France (45.4° N, 4.2° E: paleocoordinates 35.4° N, 5.6° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: glauconitic, argillaceous 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 3746: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 09.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Regoria defrenoyi clam | |
Spondylus santoniensis, Spondylus truncatus, "Spondylus dutempleanus" = Spondylus fimbriatus, Spondylus spinosus, Mimachlamys cretosa, Lyropecten ternatus
Spondylus santoniensis scallop
Spondylus truncatus scallop
"Spondylus dutempleanus" = Spondylus fimbriatus Goldfuss 1835 scallop
Spondylus spinosus Schreibers 1793 scallop
Mimachlamys cretosa Defrance 1822 scallop
Lyropecten ternatus Muenster 1833 scallop | |
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Neithea regularis Schlotheim 1813 scallop
Neithea striatocostata Goldfuss 1833 scallop | |
"Spondylus latus" = Newaagia obliquus
"Spondylus latus" = Newaagia obliquus Münster 1841 scallop | |
Ctenoides tecta, Lima dujardini, Plagiostoma maximum, Plagiostoma santonense, Plagiostoma hoperi, Limea granulata
Ctenoides tecta file clam
Lima dujardini file clam
Plagiostoma maximum file clam
Plagiostoma santonense file clam
Plagiostoma hoperi Mantell 1822 file clam
Limea granulata file clam | |
"Gervillia solenoides" = Gervillia solenoidea
"Gervillia solenoides" = Gervillia solenoidea Defrance 1820 oyster | |
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Rastellum sp. Faujas-St.-Fond 1799 oyster
Rastellum deshayesi d'Orbigny 1853 oyster | |
Vultogryphaea laciniata, Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum, Ceratostreon pliciferum, Gryphaeostrea canaliculata, Pycnodonte hippopodium, Pycnodonte nikitini, Pycnodonte proboscideum, "Pycnodonte vesiculare" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis, Hyotissa semiplana
Vultogryphaea laciniata Nilson 1827 oyster
Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum Lamarck 1801 oyster
Ceratostreon pliciferum Dujardin 1837 oyster
Gryphaeostrea canaliculata Sowerby 1813 oyster
"Pycnodonte vesiculare" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster "vesiculare s.s." - originally entered as "Pycnodonte vesiculare s.s."
Hyotissa semiplana Sowerby 1825 oyster | |
"Corbis striaticostata" = Fimbria striaticostata
"Corbis striaticostata" = Fimbria striaticostata d'Orbigny 1844 clam | |