Echinodermata, G2, Port-des-Barques, Charente-Maritime: Late/Upper Cenomanian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Stereocidaris ligeriensis
4 specimens
spelled with current rank as Temnocidaris (Stereocidaris)
Echinoidea
Cottaldia benettiae (Koenig 1825)
4 specimens
Echinoidea - Orthopsidae
Orthopsis miliaris (d'Archiac 1835)
6 specimens
Echinoidea - Pseudodiadematidae
Polydiadema bonei
1 specimen
Tetragramma variolare (Brongniart 1822)
2 specimens
Echinoidea - Pygasteridae
Pygaster truncatus
1 specimen
Echinoidea - Holectypoida - Discoididae
Discoides infera (Desor 1858)
7 specimens
Echinoidea - Holectypoida - Anorthopygidae
Anorthopygus orbicularis (de Grateloup 1836)
1 specimen
Echinoidea - Holasteroida - Holasteridae
Holaster trecensis
1 specimen
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Hemiaster similis
103 specimens
Hemiaster bufo (Brongniart 1822)
3 specimens
Asteroidea - Paxillosida - Astropectinidae
Astropectinidae indet. Gray 1840
Néraudeau and Breton 1993
Asteroidea - Valvatida - Goniasteridae
Calliderma moreaui Néraudeau and Breton 1993
Néraudeau and Breton 1993
Caletaster romani Breton 1988
Néraudeau and Breton 1993
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Terebratellidae
Terebratella carentonensis
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Sellithyrididae
Terebratula phaseolina Valenciennes 1819
recombined as Sellithyris phaseolina
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Metoicoceras geslinianum (d'Orbigny 1841)
Calycoceras naviculare (Mantell 1822)
recombined as Calycoceras (Calycoceras) naviculare
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
? Arca cf. tailleburgensis
see common names

Geography
Country:France County:Charente-Maritime
Coordinates: 46.0° North, 1.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.7° North, 1.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:0 meters
Geographic resolution:hand sample
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Cenomanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 5
Key time interval:Late/Upper Cenomanian Ammonoid zone: Sciponoceras gracile
Age range of interval:100.50000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal lithified packstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:offshore shelf
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Abundance in sediment:common
Articulated whole bodies:many
Associated major elements:many
Disassociated minor elements:many
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:59811
Authorizer:L. Villier Enterer:L. Villier
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-04-13 07:54:26 Last modified:2009-05-25 00:23:56
Access level:the public Released:2006-04-13 07:54:26
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
17135. D. Néraudeau and P. Moreau. 1996. Paléoécologie et paléobiogéographie des faunes d'échinides du Cénomanien nord-aquitain (Charente-Maritime, France). Géobios 22(3):293-324 [L. Villier/L. Villier/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

17136 D. Néraudeau and G. Breton. 1993. Astérides du Cénomanien de Charente-Maritime (SW France). Géobios 26(1):105-120 [L. Villier/L. Villier/J. Alroy]