Where: France (48.8° N, 0.1° E: paleocoordinates 37.6° N, 1.9° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Sables de Mont-Ormel Member (Craie glauconieuse Formation), Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; poorly lithified, glauconitic, yellow, calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (float),
Primary reference: G. Breton. 2008. Une carapace de crabe préservée dans le moule interne d'un gastéropode du Cénomanien de Basse-Normandie (France). L'écho des falaises 12:51-57 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 85020: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 21.11.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Calcarea | |
Porosphaera sp. Steinmann 1878 calcareous sponge
Porosphaera globularis Phillips 1829 calcareous sponge | |
Echinoidea | |
Tetragramma variolare Brongniart 1822 sea urchin
Polydiadema bonei sea urchin | |
Cardiotaxis cretacea sea urchin
Holaster subglobosus sea urchin | |
Hemiaster bufo Brongniart 1822 heart urchin | |
Discoides subuculus Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Echinogalerus rostratus sea urchin | |
Catopygus columbarius sea urchin | |
Glyptocyphus difficilis sea urchin | |
Cottaldia bennetiae sea urchin | |
Hyposalenia clathrata sea urchin | |
Cephalopoda | |
Cymatoceras radiatum Sowerby 1822 | |
Sciponoceras sp. Hyatt 1894 ammonite | |
Schloenbachia varians Sowerby 1817 ammonite | |
Mantelliceras mantelli Sowerby 1814 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Lima cf. aspera file clam | |
"Spondylus striatus" = Spondylus subnodosus
"Spondylus striatus" = Spondylus subnodosus Packard 1922 scallop | |
Neithea cometa scallop
"Neithea aequicostata" = Neithea (Neithea) aequicostata Lamarck 1819 scallop
Neithea quinquecostata Sowerby 1814 scallop | |
"Inoceramus cf. pictus" = Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus
"Inoceramus cf. pictus" = Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus Sowerby 1829 clam | |
Malacostraca | |
Necrocarcinus labeschii Eudes-Deslongchamps 1835 crab | |
Caloxanthus formosus Milne-Edwards 1864 crab |