Saint-Paul-lès-Dax (Mayxouotte) (Oligocene of France)

Where: France (43.7° N, 1.0° W: paleocoordinates 43.5° N, 3.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collection methods: Repository: Bordeaux 1 University, Talence

Primary reference: R. Chirat. 2000. The so-called 'cosmopolitan palaeobiogeographic distribution' of Tertiary Nautilida of the genus Aturia Bronn 1838: the result of post-mortem transport by oceanic palaeocurrents. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 157:59-77 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 179858: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.07.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Aturiidae
Aturia sp. Bronn 1838 nautiloid