Beaumont-du-Perigord (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Aquitaine, France (44.8° N, 0.8° E: paleocoordinates 35.6° N, 2.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Zone S of Arnaud

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Alloiteau. 1960. Sur le genre Clausastrea [About the genus Clausastrea]. Annales de Paleontologie 46:1-46 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87750: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.03.2009

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Camarodonta - Echinidae
Psammechinus sp. sea urchin
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
"Hippurites radiosus" = Hippuritella lapeirousei Goldfuss 1840 rudist
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Clausastrea bellomontensis n. sp. Alloiteau 1960 stony coral