Highway A10, France (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (45.4° N, 4.2° E: paleocoordinates 35.4° N, 5.6° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: glauconitic, argillaceous carbonate

Primary reference: H. J. Soudet and M. Fouray. 1985. Etude Paleontologique du Materiel de l''Autoroute A10-Echinides Irreguliers. Cretaceous Research 6:117-127 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3780: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 10.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Echinolampadoida - Echinolampadidae
Parapygus sp. sea urchin
 Irregularia - Clypeolampadidae
Vologesia ovum sea urchin
aff. Vologesia conica sea urchin
originally entered as "Volgesia aff. conica"
 Echinoneoida - Conulidae
Globator ovulum sea urchin
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
cf. Hemiaster ligerensis heart urchin
originally entered as "Hemiaster cf. ligerensis"
 Spatangoida - Spatangidae
Epiaster laxoporus heart urchin
 Holectypoida - Holectypidae
"Caenholectypus turonensis" = Coenholectypus
"Caenholectypus turonensis" = Coenholectypus sea urchin
originally entered as "Coenholectypus turonensis"