Where: Languedoc-Roussillon, France (42.9° N, 2.3° E: paleocoordinates 31.5° N, 4.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Coniacian (89.3 - 85.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Alloiteau. 1952. Sur le genre Diploctenium Goldf. dans le Cretace superieur Francais [About the genus Diploctenium Goldf. in the Upper Cretaceous of France]. Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France 2:537-573 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87465: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.03.2009

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