Saint Avit, Douze Valley, Landes: Aquitanian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora exarata (Michelotti 1838)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Pocillopora madreporacea (Lamarck 1816)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites collegniana Michelin 1842
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Coralliophila burdigalensis
Lozouet and Renard 1998
see common names

Geography
Country:France
Coordinates: 43.9° North, 0.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.9° North, 2.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Aquitanian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Aquitanian
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 20.44000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Upper Aquitanian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified marl
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:70310
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-03-21 01:28:38 Last modified:2007-03-21 03:28:39
Access level:the public Released:2007-03-21 01:28:36
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:

30421 P. Lozouet and P. Renard. 1998. Les Coralliophilidae, Gastropoda de l'Oligocene et du Miocene inferieur d' Aquitaine (Sud-Ouest de la France): systematique et coraux hotes [The Coralliophilidae, Gastropoda from the Oligocene and Lower Miocene of Aquitaine (SW France): systematics and coral hosts]. Geobios 31(2):171-184 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]