Where: France (47.4° N, 1.3° E: paleocoordinates 47.6° N, 0.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• "Pontilevian"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified sandstone and lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. P. Chevalier. 1961. Recherches sur les Madreporaires et les formations recifales Miocenes de la Mediterranee occidentale [Miocene corals and reefs from the western Mediterranean]. Memoires de la Societe geologique de France 93:1-562 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 70510: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.03.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Cladocora multicaulis Michelin 1842 stony coral | |
Cladangia crassoramosa, Cladangia semispherica, Cryptangia woodii, Cryptangia reptans, "Culicia parasitica" = Culicia parasita
Cladangia crassoramosa Michelin 1847 stony coral
Cladangia semispherica Defrance 1826 stony coral
Cryptangia reptans Chevalier 1961 stony coral
"Culicia parasitica" = Culicia parasita Michelin 1847 stony coral | |
Paracyathus turonensis Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Siderastrea sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral | |
Goniopora turonensis Chevalier 1961 stony coral | |
Acropora exarata Michelotti 1838 stony coral | |
Balanophyllia italica Michelin 1841 stony coral
Dendrophyllia amica Michelotti 1838 stony coral |