Saubrigues, Landes (Miocene of France)

Where: France (43.6° N, 1.3° W: paleocoordinates 43.8° N, 2.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified marl

• thick marly deposits in a calm, deeper environment

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. Chaix and B. Cahuzac. 2005. Les faunes de Scleractiniaires dans les faluns du Miocene moyen d'Atlantique-Est (bassins de la Loire et d'Aquitaine): paleobiogeographie et evolution climatique [The faunas of Scleractinian corals in the faluns of the Eastern Atlantic Middle Miocene (Loire and Aquitaine Basins): paleobiogeography and climatic evolution]. Annales de Paleontologie 91:33-72 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 70313: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.03.2007, edited by Mihaela Krause

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Flabellum basteroti Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Flabellum cristatum Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Turbinoliidae
"Cylindrophyllia duncani" = Peponocyathus duncani, Sphenotrochus intermedius
"Cylindrophyllia duncani" = Peponocyathus duncani Reuss 1871 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) laterocristatus Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Antiguastrea sp. Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Antiguastrea alveolaris Catullo 1856 stony coral
Tarbellastraea reussiana Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Heliastraeidae
Heliastrea (Athecastraea) vesiculosa Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral
Heliastrea (Heliastrea) parva Chevalier 1961 stony coral
Heliastrea (Heliastrea) saubriguensis Chevalier 1961 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylophora rugosa d'Archiac 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Goniopora decaturensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Ancillariidae
Amalda obsoleta2 Brocchi 1814 snail
 Thecosomata - Limacinidae
Heliconoides inflata1 Orbigny 1836 snail
Limacina valvatina1 Reuss 1867 snail
 Thecosomata - Cavoliniidae
Clio "sp. 2"1 Linnaeus 1767 snail
Cuvierina paronai1 Checchia-Rispoli 1921 snail