Mimbaste, Aquitaine (Miocene of France)

Where: France (43.7° N, 1.0° W: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 2.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Unknown lithostratigraphic data. THICKNESS: From unit of unknown thickness AGE: From lower Burdigalian. 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 74871: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 02.09.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to some families of Gastropoda. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritive publication with species level assignments.
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Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Dialidae
Diala electra n. sp.
Diala electra n. sp. Lozouet 1998 snail
 Cerithioidea - Scaliolidae
Clatrofenella intermedia n. sp.
Clatrofenella intermedia n. sp. Lozouet 1998 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Rissoidae
Alvania aturensis n. sp.
Alvania aturensis n. sp. Lozouet 1998 snail