Plateau des Courennes (Miocene of France)

Where: Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France (43.9° N, 5.6° E: paleocoordinates 44.0° N, 4.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. Chaix and B. Cahuzac. 2005. Le genre Culicia (Scleractiniaire): systematique, ecologie et biogeographie au Cenozoique [The genus Culicia (Scleractinia): systematics, ecology and biogeography in the Cenozoic]. Eclogae Geologica Helvetiae 98:169-187 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 88799: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.04.2009

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Taxonomic list

Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Lepraliellidae
Celleporaria palmata Michelin 1847
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Rhizangiidae
Culicia parasita Michelin 1847 stony coral