Asteroidea, Coniacian-Santonian boundary, Villers-Bocage, Somme: Late Coniacian - Early Santonian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Globothalamea - Rotaliida - Gavelinellidae
Lingulogavelinella vombensis
Reusselidae
Reussella cf. szajnochae
unclassified
Bolivinitella eleyi
Asteroidea - Valvatida - Goniasteridae
Crateraster quinqueloba (Goldfuss 1833)
1 specimen
Echinoidea
Echinoidea indet. (Leske 1778)
see common names

Geography
Country:France County:Somme
Coordinates: 50.0° North, 2.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.0° North, 4.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:hand sample
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Coniacian - Santonian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 6
Key time interval: Late Coniacian - Early Santonian
Age range of interval: 89.8 - 83.6 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: poorly lithified wackestone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:offshore shelf Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Geology comments: Chalk
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:excellent
Abundance in sediment:rare
Associated major elements:all
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:59579
Authorizer:L. Villier Enterer:L. Villier
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-04-04 07:57:57 Last modified:2006-04-04 10:57:58
Access level:the public Released:2006-04-04 07:57:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
17061. G. Breton. 1992. Les Goniasteridae (Asteroidea, Echinodermata) jurassiques et crétacés de France. Taphonomie, systématique, biostratigraphie, paléobiogéographie, évolution. Bulletin trimestriel de la Société géologique de Normandie et des Amis du Muséum du Havre, numéro hors série 78:1-590 [L. Villier/L. Villier]