Jonchery-sur-Vesle (Paleocene of France)

Where: Marne, France (49.3° N, 3.8° E: paleocoordinates 43.8° N, 1.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: NP8 nannofossil zone, Châlons-sur-Vesle Formation, Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

• Sables

Size class: mesofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: M. M. Glibert. 1963. Les Mesogastropoda Fossiles du Cenozoïque étranger des Collections de L'Institute Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. Institute Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Memoire, 10th sériés 69:1-305 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178041: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 14.04.2016, edited by Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
"Cypraea (Bernayia) prisca" = Archicypraea prisca1
"Cypraea (Bernayia) prisca" = Archicypraea prisca1 Deshayes 1865 cowry
 Sorbeoconcha - Hippochrenidae
"Aporrhais (Maussenetia) staadti" = Maussenetia staadti
"Aporrhais (Maussenetia) staadti" = Maussenetia staadti Cossmann 1904 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Amnicolidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Pomatiopsidae
Bouryia distensa3, Bouryia minor3, Bouryia roberti n. sp.3, "Truncatella cylindrata" = Bouryia cylindrata3
Bouryia distensa3 Cossmann 1888 snail
Bouryia minor3 Briart and Cornet 1887 snail
Bouryia roberti n. sp.3 Pacaud 2011 snail
"Truncatella cylindrata" = Bouryia cylindrata3 Briart and Cornet 1887 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Hydrobiidae
Costhyrella abnormis n. sp.2 Deshayes 1862 snail
"Hydrobia cylindracea" = Hydrobia (Hydrobia) cylindracea2 Deshayes 1862 snail
Bivalvia
 Solemyida - Nucinellidae
Nucinella ovalina n. sp.4 Cossmann 1887 Nut Clam