Also known as Reef 1269
Where: France (43.2° N, 3.0° E: paleocoordinates 33.2° N, 4.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: P. Freytet. 1973. Edifices recifaux developpes dans un environnement detritique: exemple des biostromes a Hippurites (rudistes) du Senonien inferieur du sillon languedocien (region de Narbonne, sud de la France) [Reef building in a detritic environment: the biostromes with Hippurites (rudists) in the lower Senonian of the Languedocian furrow (Narbonne region, southern France)]. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 13:65-76 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 74500: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.08.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Radiolites sp. Lamarck 1801 rudist | |
Hippurites sp. Lamarck 1801 rudist | |
Anthozoa | |
Brachyseris sp. Alloiteau 1947 stony coral | |
Demospongiae | |
Cliona sp. demosponge |