Where: France (45.5° N, 0.5° E: paleocoordinates 35.3° N, 1.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Bourg-des-Maisons Formation, Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified packstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. P. Platel. 1998. The Turonian rudist-bearing carbonate platforms of the Charentes and Perigord areas, Aquitaine Basin (France). Geobios, Memoire special 22:295-311 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 74223: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 31.07.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Bivalvia | |
Durania cornupastoris, Radiolites praesauvagesi, Radiolites trigeri, Radiolites peroni, Radiolites radiosus, Praeradiolites ponsi, Sphaerulites patera, Biradiolites quadratus, Biradiolites angulosus
Durania cornupastoris Des Moulins 1826 rudist
Radiolites praesauvagesi rudist
Radiolites trigeri rudist
Radiolites peroni rudist
Radiolites radiosus rudist
Praeradiolites ponsi rudist
Sphaerulites patera rudist
Biradiolites quadratus rudist
Biradiolites angulosus d'Orbigny 1850 rudist | |