Paris quarry stones: Lutetian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Cerithium petricolum n. sp. Lamarck 1804
Cerithium lapidorum Lamarck 1804
see common names

Geography
Country:France
Coordinates: 48.8° North, 2.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:45.7° North, 1.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Lutetian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
Key time interval:Lutetian
Age range of interval:47.80000 - 41.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Presumably the Lutetian Limestone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:MNHN
Collection method comments: Repository: Lamarck collection (some of which is now at MNHN Paris)
Metadata
Database number:184147
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2017-02-04 14:44:04 Last modified:2017-02-04 14:44:04
Access level:the public Released:2017-02-04 14:44:04
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

61532. J. B. Lamarck. 1804. Suite des mémoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 3:343-352 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]