Livernant: Campanian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Holasteroida - Holasteridae
Cardiaster anachytes
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Hemiaster breviusculus
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Micrasteridae
Micraster laxoporus
Micraster glyphus Schluter 1869
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
Rhynchonella globata Arnaud 1877
recombined as Cyclothyris globata
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites anceps Lamarck 1822
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Diploctenium crassicostatum n. sp. Alloiteau 1952
Diploctenium arnaudi n. sp. Alloiteau 1952
Diploctenium enigma n. sp. Alloiteau 1952
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Poitou-Charentes County:Charente
Coordinates: 45.5° North, 0.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.2° North, 2.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:Campanian
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: marly limestone
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:87397
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-03-17 05:36:33 Last modified:2009-03-17 07:36:33
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-08 10:39:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

29430. J. Alloiteau. 1952. Sur le genre Diploctenium Goldf. dans le Cretace superieur Francais [About the genus Diploctenium Goldf. in the Upper Cretaceous of France]. Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France 2:537-573 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]