Tuilerie de Gan (Pacaud collection): Ypresian, France
collected by Pacaud

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Ovulidae
Simnia pacaudi n. sp. Dolin and Ledon 2002
Dolin and Ledon 2002
Gastropoda - Eocypraeidae
Luponovula merlei Dolin and Ledon 2002
Dolin and Ledon 2002
Gastropoda - Seraphsidae
Paraseraphs tetanus Jung 1974
see common names

Geography
Country:France
Coordinates: 43.2° North, 0.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.6° North, 1.9° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Ypresian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 2
Key time interval: Ypresian Foram zone:  NP 12
Age range of interval: 56 - 47.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Marnes de Gan
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Middle-Late Ypresian / Top NP 12 and NP 13 zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray unlithified marl
Secondary lithology: claystone
Lithology description: greyish-blue marls and clays, locally a little sandy
Environment:offshore shelf
Geology comments: circalittoral, quiet environment, whereas the upper part represents inner neritic environments.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original aragonite
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:MNHN
Collectors:Pacaud
Metadata
Database number:183745
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2017-01-15 11:58:56 Last modified:2017-01-15 12:04:44
Access level:the public Released:2017-01-15 11:58:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
58869. B. Caze, D. Merle, J. M. Pacaud and J. P. Saint Martin. 2010. First systematic study using the variability of the residual colour patterns: the case of the Paleogene Seraphsidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Stromboidea). Geodiversitas 32(3):417-477 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

57815 L. Dolin and D. Ledon. 2002. Nouveaux taxons et discussion de la systématique des genres correspondants d’Ovulidae (Mollusca, Caenogastropoda) de l’Éocène inférieur de Gan (France). Geodiversitas 24(2):329-347 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Clapham]