Mont Aime (Paleocene of France)

Where: France (48.5° N, 3.0° E: paleocoordinates 41.9° N, 1.3° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mont Aime Formation, Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• The Mont Aime Formation, of doubtful age, likely Paleocene and probably Danian

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

• Environment with strong terrigenous discharges, resisted to the mud invasion by means of a high number of their avicularia or respectively of the flexibility of their jointed zoaria or of their substratum.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: G. Braga and G. Bignot. 1986. Les bryozoaires de la formation d'age paléocène (danien probable) du Mont Aimé (Marne, Bassin Parisien). Géobios 19(3):279-298 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10239: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 19.06.2001

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Taxonomic list

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Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Quadricellariidae
Nellia stricta
 Cheilostomata - Tessaradomidae
Beisselina bigeyae
 Cheilostomata - Calloporidae
Planicellaria oculata, Stamenocella pristis, Ramphonotus sp.
Planicellaria oculata d'Orbigny 1851
Stenolaemata
 Cyclostomata - Crisiidae
? Crisidia sp.
? Crisidia sp. Milne-Edwards 1838
 Cyclostomata - Plagioeciidae
Plagioecia bibensis