Highway A10, France (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (45.4° N, 4.2° E: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 5.5° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: glauconitic, argillaceous carbonate

Primary reference: A. V. Dhondt. 1985. Late Cretaceous Bivalves from the A10 Exposures in Northern Aquitaine. Cretaceous Research 6:33-74 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3747: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 09.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Mytilida -
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Neithea quinquecostata Sowerby 1814 scallop
Neithea regularis Schlotheim 1813 scallop
Neithea sexangularis Orbigny 1847 scallop
Neithea striatocostata Goldfuss 1833 scallop
 Pectinida - Terquemiidae
"Spondylus latus" = Newaagia obliquus
"Spondylus latus" = Newaagia obliquus Münster 1841 scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Spondylus ? spinosus Schreibers 1793 scallop
originally entered as "Spondylus ?spinosus"
"Spondylus dutempleanus" = Spondylus fimbriatus Goldfuss 1835 scallop
cf. Chlamys royana scallop
originally entered as "Chlamys cf. royana"
Mimachlamys cretosa Defrance 1822 scallop
Lyropecten ternatus Muenster 1833 scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Syncyclonema nilsoni Goldfuss 1835 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Rastellum sp. Faujas-St.-Fond 1799 oyster
Hyotissa semiplana Sowerby 1825 oyster
Pycnodonte hippopodium oyster
Pycnodonte vesiculare hippopodium
Pycnodonte nikitini oyster
Pycnodonte vesiculare nikitini
"Pycnodonte vesiculare" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster
"vesiculare s.s." - originally entered as "Pycnodonte vesiculare s.s."
Gryphaeostrea canaliculata Sowerby 1813 oyster
Ceratostreon pliciferum Dujardin 1837 oyster