Highway A10, France (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (45.4° N, 4.2° E: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 5.5° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: glauconitic, argillaceous carbonate

Primary reference: H. J. Soudet and M. Fouray. 1985. Etude Paleontologique du Materiel de l''Autoroute A10-Echinides Irreguliers. Cretaceous Research 6:117-127 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3784: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 10.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Micrasteridae
Micraster regularis heart urchin
 Spatangoida - Spatangidae
Epiaster laxoporus heart urchin
 Holasteroida - Holasteridae