Where: Pays de la Loire, France (47.7° N, 1.1° W: paleocoordinates 47.9° N, 2.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• "Savigneen"
• bed-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 88801: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.04.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Culicia parasita Michelin 1847 stony coral | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Celleporaria palmata Michelin 1847 |