Plateau des Courennes: Burdigalian, France
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
|
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Rhizangiidae
|
|||||||
|
Culicia parasita
(Michelin 1847)
|
|||||||
|
Gymnolaemata
- Cheilostomata
- Lepraliellidae
|
|||||||
|
Celleporaria palmata
(Michelin 1847)
|
|||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | France | State/province: | Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur | County: | Vaucluse |
| Coordinates: | 43.9° North, 5.6° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 44.0° North, 4.0° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Burdigalian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Burdigalian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 20.44000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 88799 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-04-21 02:26:59 | Last modified: | 2009-04-21 05:26:59 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2010-01-08 10:39:56 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 29773. | C. Chaix and B. Cahuzac. 2005. Le genre Culicia (Scleractiniaire): systematique, ecologie et biogeographie au Cenozoique [The genus Culicia (Scleractinia): systematics, ecology and biogeography in the Cenozoic]. Eclogae Geologica Helvetiae 98:169-187 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] |