Port-des-Barques, unit T1 (Cretaceous of France)

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

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Taxonomic list

Asteroidea
 Valvatida - Goniasteridae
Calliderma viaudi Breton 1988 sea star
Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Squalicorax coquandi n. sp. Vullo et al. 2007 crow shark
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Mammites nodosoides Schlüter 1871 ammonite