Where: France, France (43.3° N, 2.6° E: paleocoordinates 38.8° N, 0.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Calcares marins à alvéolines Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• Based on alveolinid age the collection correspond to the Early Ilerdian
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, tabular mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments and lithified rudstone
Preservation: recrystallized, original aragonite, replaced with calcite
Collection methods: bulk, peel or thin section
Primary reference: J. Zamagni, A. Kosir, and M. Mutti. 2009. The first microbialite-coral mounds in the Cenozoic (Uppermost Paleocene) from the Northern Tethys (Slovenia): Environmentally-triggered phase shifts preceding the PETM?. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 274(1-2):1-17 [W. Kiessling/J. Zamagni/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 80834: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Jessica Zamagni on 14.05.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Anthozoa | |
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Astrocoenia gibbosa Duncan 1880 stony coral
Stylocoenia neutra Barta-Calmus 1973 stony coral | |
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Astreopora auvertiaca Michelin 1844 stony coral | |
Actinacis cognata, "Goniopora hrpeljensis" = Elephantaria lindstroemi
Actinacis cognata Oppenheim 1901 stony coral
"Goniopora hrpeljensis" = Elephantaria lindstroemi Oppenheim 1930 stony coral | |
"Litharaea sp." = Goniopora, Porites sp.
"Litharaea sp." = Goniopora Blainville 1830 stony coral
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral | |