Echinodermata, Unit D, Ile Madame, Charente-Maritime (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (46.0° N, 1.1° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 1.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, argillaceous, silty wackestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: D. Néraudeau and P. Moreau. 1996. Paléoécologie et paléobiogéographie des faunes d'échinides du Cénomanien nord-aquitain (Charente-Maritime, France). Géobios 22(3):293-324 [L. Villier/L. Villier/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 59806: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 13.04.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Euechinoidea - Pseudodiadematidae
 Cassiduloida - Cassidulidae
Nucleopygus minor Desor 1842 sea urchin
Catopygus carinatus Goldfuss 1826 sea urchin
 Irregularia - Nucleolitidae
 Irregularia - Archiaciidae
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Periaster elatus heart urchin
Hemiaster grossouvrei heart urchin
 Holectypoida -
 Holectypoida - Holectypidae
Coenholectypus excisus Desor 1847 sea urchin
 Arbacioida - Arbaciidae
Goniopygus menardi Desmarest in Defrance 1925 sea urchin
Asteroidea
 Valvatida - Goniasteridae
"Metopaster guyaderi" = Fredaster guyaderi Breton 1992 sea star
Calliderma smithiae Forbes 1848 sea star
Crateraster fourayae Breton 1992 sea star
Comptonia cf. soullansensis Breton 1992 sea star
Caletaster romani Breton 1988 sea star
Metopaster parkinsoni Forbes 1848 sea star