Asteroidea, Lower Cenomanian, Le Billot, Notre-Dame-de-Fresnay, Calvados (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (49.0° N, 0.1° W: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 1.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Mantelliceras mantelli zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; poorly lithified, glauconitic sandstone and poorly lithified, glauconitic packstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

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 59658: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 06.04.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Mantelliceras mantelli Sowerby 1814 ammonite
Mantelliceras aff. saxbii1 Sharpe 1857 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Schloenbachiidae
Schloenbachia varians1 Sowerby 1817 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Hoplitidae
Hyphoplites falcatus1 Mantell 1822 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
"Neostlingoceras aff. carcitanense" = Neostlingoceras carcitanensis1
"Neostlingoceras aff. carcitanense" = Neostlingoceras carcitanensis1 Matheron 1842 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys sp.1 Röding 1798 scallop
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaeostrea canaliculata1 Sowerby 1813 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Ostrea" sp.1 Linnaeus 1758 oyster
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus ligeriensis1 d'Orbigny 1844 mussel
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
Cyclothyris sp.1 M'Coy 1844
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Thecostraca
 Calanticomorpha - Cretiscalpellidae
Cretiscalpellum sp.1 Withers 1922 barnacle
Asteroidea
 Paxillosida - Astropectinidae
Astropectinidae indet. Gray 1840 sea star
 Paxillosida - Goniopectinidae
""Nymphaster" radiatus" = Chrispaulia radiatus1
""Nymphaster" radiatus" = Chrispaulia radiatus1 Spencer 1905 sea star
 Valvatida - Stauranderasteridae
? Stauranderaster coronatus2 Forbes 1848 sea star
 Valvatida - Pycinasteridae
Pycinaster humilis Spencer 1913 sea star
 Valvatida - Goniasteridae
Comptonia elegans Gray 1840 sea star
Metopaster parkinsoni Forbes 1848 sea star
Metopaster andreae2 Gale 1987 sea star
Mastaster villersensis Mercier 1935 sea star
Nymphaster sp. Sladen 1889 sea star
Nymphaster cf. dutempleanus d'Orbigny 1850 sea star
Crateraster debrisi Breton 1992 sea star
Spenceraster rugosus Spencer 1907 sea star
Calliderma juigneti Breton 1988 sea star
Calliderma smithiae Forbes 1848 sea star
Caletaster romani Breton 1988 sea star
Comptoniaster comptoni Forbes 1848 sea star
 Valvatida - Sphaerasteridae
Valettaster ocellatus Forbes 1848 sea star