Highway A 10, France (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (45.4° N, 4.2° E: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 5.2° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: carbonate

Primary reference: H. A. Kollmann. 1985. Upper Cretaceous Gastropods from Excavations for the Highway A10 (Charente, France). Cretaceous Research 6:85-111 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3728: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 09.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Acteonellidae
"Actaeonella grassouvrei" = Acteonella
"Actaeonella grassouvrei" = Acteonella snail
 Heterostropha - Nerineidae
"Plesioptygmatis pseudonabilis" = Nerinea (Plesioptygmatis)
"Plesioptygmatis pseudonabilis" = Nerinea (Plesioptygmatis) snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Tylostomatidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Procerithiidae
Cimolithium sp. Cossmann 1906 snail
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
 Pleurotomarioidea - Pleurotomariidae
 Heterostrophia -