Asteroidea, Coniacian-Santonian boundary, Villers-Bocage, Somme (Cretaceous to of France)

Where: France (50.0° N, 2.3° E: paleocoordinates 40.0° N, 4.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Coniacian to Late/Upper Coniacian (89.3 - 83.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; poorly lithified wackestone

• Chalk

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: G. Breton. 1992. Les Goniasteridae (Asteroidea, Echinodermata) jurassiques et crétacés de France. Taphonomie, systématique, biostratigraphie, paléobiogéographie, évolution. Bulletin trimestriel de la Société géologique de Normandie et des Amis du Muséum du Havre, numéro hors série 78:1-590 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 59579: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 04.04.2006

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Foraminifera
 Buliminacea - Reusselidae
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Gavelinellidae
Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Asteroidea
 Valvatida - Goniasteridae
Crateraster quinqueloba Goldfuss 1833 sea star