Mainot, St.-Paul-les-Dax (Miocene of France)

Where: Aquitaine, France (43.7° N, 1.0° W: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 3.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: N4 foram zone, Falun de Saucats Formation, Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)

• N4 and SBZ24 zones. Given area and age, this should be Falun de Saucats formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified, yellow limestone and lithified siliciclastic

• Infralittoral facies.
• yellow-orange coral faluns and shelly sands.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. Cahuzac and A. W. Janssen. 2010. Eocene to Miocene holoplanktonic Mollusca (Gastropoda) of the Aquitaine Basin, southwest France. Scripta geologica 141:1-193 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90457: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.07.2009, edited by Mihaela Krause and Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Thecosomata - Cavoliniidae
Vaginella depressa
Vaginella depressa Daudin 1800 snail
 Thecosomata - Limacinidae
Heliconoides ? inflata
Heliconoides ? inflata Orbigny 1836 snail
 Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Galeropsis lavenayanus3
Galeropsis lavenayanus3 slipper shell
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Coralliophila burdigalensis3
 Neogastropoda - Coralliophilidae
Leptoconchus costatus3
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Plaziatia subglobosa1, Zonarina maynotensis n. sp.1, Zonarina aturensis n. sp.1, Lyncina eristicos n. sp.1
Plaziatia subglobosa1 Grateloup 1846 cowry
Zonarina maynotensis n. sp.1 Dolin and Lozouet 2004 cowry
Zonarina aturensis n. sp.1 Dolin and Lozouet 2004 cowry
Lyncina eristicos n. sp.1 Dolin and Lozouet 2004 cowry
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Europicardium polycolpatum" = Cardium (Trachycardium) polycolpatum2
"Europicardium polycolpatum" = Cardium (Trachycardium) polycolpatum2 Cossmann and Peyrot 1911 cockle
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Diploastraeidae
"Thegioastraea sp." = Diploastrea3
"Thegioastraea sp." = Diploastrea3 Matthai 1914 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Pocillopora madreporacea3
Pocillopora madreporacea3 Lamarck 1816 stony coral
1Dolin and Lozouet 2004; 2La Perna 2016; 3Lozouet and Renard 1998