Where: France (46.0° N, 1.1° W: paleocoordinates 35.6° N, 0.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Mammites nodosoides ammonoid zone, Marnes verts a Exogyres Formation, Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• PJW: Should be Marnes verts a Exogyres. Corresponds to D2 of Arnaud, the lower part of unit H of Moreau et al. (1983).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; poorly lithified wackestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: D. Néraudeau and G. Breton. 1993. Astérides du Cénomanien de Charente-Maritime (SW France). Géobios 26(1):105-120 [L. Villier/L. Villier/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 59820: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 14.04.2006, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Asteroidea | |
Calliderma viaudi Breton 1988 sea star | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Squalicorax coquandi n. sp.
Squalicorax coquandi n. sp. Vullo et al. 2007 crow shark | |
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark | |
Cephalopoda | |
Mammites nodosoides Schlüter 1871 ammonite |