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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Cypraea (Bernayia) prisca" = Archicypraea prisca1
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"Aporrhais (Maussenetia) staadti" = Maussenetia staadti
"Aporrhais (Maussenetia) staadti" = Maussenetia staadti Cossmann 1904 snail | |
Bouryia distensa3, Bouryia minor3, Bouryia roberti n. sp.3, "Truncatella cylindrata" = Bouryia cylindrata3
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Costhyrella convergens2, Costhyrella marginata2, Costhyrella abnormis n. sp.2, "Hydrobia cylindracea" = Hydrobia (Hydrobia) cylindracea2
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Bivalvia | |
Nucinella ovalina n. sp.4
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