Balesta, Midi-Pyrénées (Paleocene of France)

Where: France (43.2° N, 0.6° E: paleocoordinates 36.1° N, 0.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• Montian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

• no information given

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Alloiteau and J. Tissier. 1958. Les madréporaires du montien des petites pyrénées (Comparaison avec ceux du Montien de Mons). Bulletin de la Société d’Histoire naturelle de Toulouse 93:241-293 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76891: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 07.12.2007, edited by Uta Merkel

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Sideroseris durhami Wells 1945 stony coral