Also known as Asteroidea, Lower Cenomanian, Le Billot, Notre-Dame-de-Fresnay, Calvados
Where: Normandy, France (49.0° N, 0.1° W: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 1.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Mantelliceras mantelli ammonoid zone, Sables de Montormel Formation, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• Mantelliceras mantelli zone. PJW: Should be Saint Jouin given location.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; poorly lithified, glauconitic sandstone and poorly lithified, glauconitic packstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
Primary reference: G. Breton. 1992. Les Goniasteridae (Asteroidea, Echinodermata) jurassiques et crétacés de France. Taphonomie, systématique, biostratigraphie, paléobiogéographie, évolution. Bulletin trimestriel de la Société géologique de Normandie et des Amis du Muséum du Havre, numéro hors série 78:1-590 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 59658: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 06.04.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Asteroidea | |
Valettaster ocellatus Forbes 1848 sea star | |
Spenceraster rugosus, Crateraster debrisi, Metopaster andreae2, Metopaster parkinsoni, Comptoniaster comptoni, Caletaster romani, Comptonia elegans, Nymphaster sp., Nymphaster cf. dutempleanus, Calliderma juigneti, Calliderma smithiae, Mastaster villersensis
Spenceraster rugosus Spencer 1907 sea star
Crateraster debrisi Breton 1992 sea star
Metopaster parkinsoni Forbes 1848 sea star
Comptoniaster comptoni Forbes 1848 sea star
Caletaster romani Breton 1988 sea star
Comptonia elegans Gray 1840 sea star
Nymphaster sp. Sladen 1889 sea star
Nymphaster cf. dutempleanus d'Orbigny 1850 sea star
Calliderma juigneti Breton 1988 sea star
Calliderma smithiae Forbes 1848 sea star
Mastaster villersensis Mercier 1935 sea star | |
Pycinaster humilis Spencer 1913 sea star | |
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""Nymphaster" radiatus" = Chrispaulia radiatus1
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Astropectinidae indet. Gray 1840 sea star | |
Polychaeta | |
Serpulidae indet.1 Rafinesque 1835 | |
Cephalopoda | |
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Mantelliceras mantelli Sowerby 1814 ammonite | |
"Neostlingoceras aff. carcitanense" = Neostlingoceras carcitanensis1
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Bivalvia | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
Cyclothyris sp.1 M'Coy 1844 | |
Thecostraca | |
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