Where: Charente-Maritime, France (45.8° N, 0.9° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 1.1° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; claystone
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: adpression
Primary reference: D. Neraudeau, V. Perrichot, J.-P. Colin, V. Girard, B. Gomez, F. Guillocheau, E. Masure, D. Peyrot, F. Tostain, B. Videt, and R. Vullo. 2008. A new amber deposit from the Cretaceous (uppermost Albian-lowermost Cenomanian) of southwestern France. Cretaceous Research 29:925-929 [P. Barrett/T. Cleary]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 176637: authorized by Paul Barrett, entered by Terri Cleary on 19.02.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Brenneripollis | |
Brenneripollis sp. Juhász and Goczan 1985 | |
Equisetopsida | |
Frenelopsis sp. Schenk 1869 "the main component of the fossil plant cuticles from A1a is by far the cheirolepidiaceous conifer Frenelopsis"
Classopollis classoides Pflug 1953
Araucariacites australis Cookson 1947 | |
Inaperturopollenites sp. Potonié 1966 | |
Cycadopsida | |
Eucommiidites troedssonii Potonié 1958 cycads | |
Concavissimisporites | |
Angiospermae | |
Afropollis sp. Doyle et al. 1982 | |
Clavatipollenites hughesii Kemp 1968 | |
Lycopodiopsida | |
Retitriletes anulatus clubmoss | |
Sestrosporites irregulatus clubmoss | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Laevigatosporites sp. Ibrahim 1933 | |
Peromonolites allenensis Brenner 1963 | |
Biretisporites potoniei Delcourt and Sprumont 1955 | |
Ornamentifera sp. Bolkhovitina 1966
Gleicheniidites senonicus Ross 1949 | |
Dictyophyllidites harrisii Couper 1958 | |
Microreticulatisporites | |
Pteridopsida | |
Deltoidospora mesozoica Schuurman 1977
Todisporites minor Couper 1953
Osmundacidites wellmanii Couper 1953 | |
Reticulosporis | |
Plicifera | |
Plicifera sp. Bolchovitina 1966 |