Peyrehorade, Aquitaine (Oligocene of France)

Where: France (43.6° N, 1.1° W: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 3.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Unknown lithostratigraphic data. THICKNESS: From unit of unknown thickness AGE: Chattian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within section.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

• ENVIRONMENT: Unknown.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, assumed based of figured specimens, excellent preservation, free of sediment.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Reposited in the MNHN

• COLLECTORS: Unknown. REPOSITORY: MNHN, Paris.

Primary reference: P. Lozouet. 1998. Nouvelles espéces de gastéropodes (Mollusca: Gastropoda) de L'Oligocéne et di Miocéne inférieur de"Aquitaine (sud-ouest de la France). Cossmanniana 5(3-4):61-102 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 74858: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 31.08.2007, edited by Mihaela Krause

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to some families of Gastropoda. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritive publication with species level assignments.
unclassified
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Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Skeneidae
Cirsonella funata n. sp. Lozouet 1998 snail
 Lepetellida - Scissurellidae
Praescissurella oligomiocaenica n. sp. Lozouet 1998 snail
Sinezona praecedens n. sp. Lozouet 1998 snail
Larocheopsis marshalli n. sp. Lozouet 1998 snail
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Cerithidium plebeium n. sp. Lozouet 1998 cerith snail
 Cerithioidea - Scaliolidae
Scaliola fallaciosa n. sp. Lozouet 1998 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Rissoidae
Alvania aturensis n. sp. Lozouet 1998 snail
Alvania argillensis n. sp. Lozouet 1998 snail
Alvania discazalorum n. sp. Lozouet 1998 snail
Alvania foraminata n. sp. Lozouet 1998 snail
Alvania sublagouardensis n. sp. Lozouet 1998 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Vitrinellidae
Circulus enaulus n. sp. Lozouet 1998 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Eatoniellidae
Crassitoniella europaea n. sp. Lozouet 1998 snail
 Cavolinioidea - Cuvierinidae
 Thecosomata - Limacinidae
Heliconoides linneensis Janssen 2008 snail
Heliconoides hospes Rolle 1861 snail