Pontlevoy, Loire Basin, Loir-et-Cher: Middle Miocene, France
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Acroporidae
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Acropora exarata
(Michelotti 1838)
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Siderastreidae
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Siderastrea sp.
Blainville 1830
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Siderastrea miocenica
Osasco 1896
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| var. italica | ||||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Poritidae
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Goniopora turonensis
Chevalier 1961
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Caryophylliidae
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Paracyathus turonensis
Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Rhizangiidae
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Cladangia crassoramosa
(Michelin 1847)
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Cladangia semispherica
(Defrance 1826)
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Cryptangia woodii
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| var. michelini | ||||||||||
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Cryptangia reptans
Chevalier 1961
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Culicia parasitica
(Michelin 1847)
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| recombined as Culicia parasita | ||||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Merulinidae
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Cladocora multicaulis
(Michelin 1842)
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Dendrophylliidae
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Dendrophyllia amica
(Michelotti 1838)
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Balanophyllia italica
(Michelin 1841)
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Geography
| Country: | France |
| Coordinates: | 47.4° North, 1.3° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 47.6° North, 0.1° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Middle Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 15.98000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "Pontilevian" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
| Lithology description: coarse-grained shelly sands ("faluns") and poorly consolidated skeletal carbonates, corals occur as isolated colonies without developing reef buildups | |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 70510 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel |
| Modifier: | U. Merkel | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-03-27 00:29:13 | Last modified: | 2007-03-27 03:47:06 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-03-27 00:29:13 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 23527. | J. P. Chevalier. 1961. Recherches sur les Madreporaires et les formations recifales Miocenes de la Mediterranee occidentale [Miocene corals and reefs from the western Mediterranean]. Memoires de la Societe geologique de France 93:1-562 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel] |
Secondary references:
| 23525 | B. Cahuzac and C. Chaix. 1996. Structural and faunal evolution of Chattian-Miocene reefs and corals in western France and the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. SEPM Concepts in Sedimentology and Paleontology 5:105-127 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] |