Where: France (43.2° N, 0.4° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 1.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: NP 12 foram zone, Marnes de Gan Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• Middle-Late Ypresian / Top NP 12 and NP 13 zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; unlithified, gray marl and claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collected by D. Moumiet

• Repository: collection of D. Moumiet (not clear whether later deposited in any museum)

Primary reference: C. Dolin and L. Dolin. 1983. Révision des Triviacea et Cypraeacea (Mollusca, Prosobranchia) éocènes récoltés dans les localité de Gan (Tuilerie et Acot) et Bosdarros (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France). Mededelingen van de Werkgroep voor Tertiaire en Kwartaire Geologie 20(1):5-48 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 183750: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.01.2017

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