Where: Basse-Normandie, France (49.4° N, 1.5° W: paleocoordinates 49.4° N, 1.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• Pliocene I of Lauriat-Rage 1986
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: C. Chaix. 1989. Les Scleractiniaires du Pliocene de Normandie [Scleractinia from the Pliocene of Normandy]. Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Section C 11(1):3-13 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 84626: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.11.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Balanophyllia varians Reuss 1854 stony coral |