Bois-Vert tidal flat, Fouras Peninsula (Unit B2ms bonebed) (Cretaceous of France)

Also known as Fouras Bois-Vert

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

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Unit B2ms

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; glauconitic, sandy claystone

• "very shallow environment, in a coastal estuarine context"
• "glauconitic sandy clays"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: D. Néraudeau, R. Allain, V. Perrichot, B. Videt, F. Lapparent Broin, F. Guillocheau, M. Philippe, J.-C. Rage, and R. Vullo. 2003. Découverte d'un dépôt paralique à bois fossiles, ambre insectifère et restes d'Iguanodontidae (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) dans le Cénomanien inférieur de Fouras (Charente-Maritime, Sud-Ouest de la France). Comptes Rendus Palevol 2:221-230 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 65421: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 21.09.2006, edited by Matthew Carrano, Jonathan Tennant and Patricia Holroyd

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Reptilia
 Testudinata - Helochelydridae
Helochelys danubina1 von Meyer 1854 turtle
Shell fragments
 Testudines -
Cryptodira indet.2, "Chelonii indet." = Testudines
Cryptodira indet.2 turtle
Shell fragments
"Chelonii indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle
 Squamata - Simoliophiidae
Simoliophis rochebrunei Sauvage 1880 snake
 Ornithischia -
Iguanodontoidea indet.4 Hay 1902 ornithopod
 Pterosauria -
Pterosauria indet. pterosaur
MA FBV 4
? Ornithocheiroidea indet.3 pterosaur
MA FBV 3