Chemin de Cugurou, Bugarach, Aude (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (42.9° N, 2.3° E: paleocoordinates 31.4° N, 4.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Coniacian (89.8 - 86.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: foreshore; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal rudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: surface (float), 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 59680: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 07.04.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Asteroidea
 Valvatida - Chaetasteridae
Arthraster sp. n. sp. Forbes 1848 sea star
 Valvatida - Pycinasteridae
Pycinaster humilis Spencer 1913 sea star
 Valvatida - Stauranderasteridae
Stauranderasteridae indet. Spencer 1913 sea star
 Valvatida - Goniasteridae
Crateraster quinqueloba Goldfuss 1833 sea star
Bugarachaster depressus Breton 1992 sea star
Metopaster sp. Sladen 1893 sea star
Metopaster hunteri Forbes 1848 sea star
Caletaster sp. Breton 1978 sea star
Caletaster girardi Breton 1978 sea star
Nymphaster sp. Sladen 1889 sea star
Echinoidea
 Euechinoidea - Orthopsidae
Orthopsis miliaris d'Archiac 1835 sea urchin
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
"Typocidaris pseudopistillum" = Temnocidaris (Stereocidaris)
"Typocidaris pseudopistillum" = Temnocidaris (Stereocidaris) pencil urchin
Crinoidea
 Cyrtocrinida - Holopodidae
"Pseudocupressocrinus senessei n. gen. n. sp." = Cyathidium senessei
"Pseudocupressocrinus senessei n. gen. n. sp." = Cyathidium senessei Valette 1934 Sea lily