N-W French atlantic basins: Tortonian - Messinian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Oculinidae
Diplohelia parvistella
synonym of Diplhelia
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Cladocora prevostiana Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849
Cladocora multicaulis (Michelin 1842)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Rhizangiidae
Culicia parasitica (Michelin 1847)
recombined as Culicia parasita
Cryptangia reptans Chevalier 1961
Astrangia manthelanensis Chevalier 1961
Cladangia crassoramosa (Michelin 1847)
Cladangia aquitaniensis Chevalier 1961
Cladangia semispherica (Defrance 1826)
spp. semispherica
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Turbinoliidae
Sphenotrochus intermedius
Peponocyathus sp. n. sp. Gravier 1915
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Paleoastroides theotvoldensis
Dendrophyllia amica (Michelotti 1838)
Dendrophyllia taurinensis Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
Dendrophyllia longaeva Sismonda 1871
Dendrophyllia cornigera (Lamarck 1816)
Balanophyllia varians Reuss 1854
see common names

Geography
Country:France
Coordinates: 47.4° North, 1.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.6° North, 2.6° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:basin
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Tortonian - Messinian
Age range of interval:11.62000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:163847
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2014-11-18 04:07:21 Last modified:2014-11-18 04:07:21
Access level:authorizer only Released:2015-02-18 04:07:21
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

53435. B. Cahuzac and C. Chaix. 1993. Les faunes de coraux (Anthozoaires Scléractiniaires) de la façade atlantique française au Chattien et au Miocène. Ciências da Terra (12)57-69 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]