Echinoidea, Site 77, Fontenoy, Paris basin (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (47.6° N, 3.3° E: paleocoordinates 38.2° N, 12.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Calcaires à spatangues Formation, Early/Lower Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; poorly lithified, ferruginous, ooidal, shelly/skeletal, argillaceous packstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: B. David. 1985. La variation chez les échinides irréguliers. Dimensions ontogénétiques, écologiques, évolutives. Thèse de l'Université de Dijon 1-302 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69760: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 06.03.2007

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Holectypoida - Holectypidae
Coenholectypus macropygus Agassiz 1836 sea urchin
 Spatangoida - Toxasteridae
Toxaster retusus Lamarck 1816 heart urchin
 Holasteroida - Holasteridae
 Irregularia - Nucleolitidae
Phyllobrissus gresslyi Agassiz 1839 sea urchin