Sample II 100, Tercis-les-Bains (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Landes, France (43.7° N, 1.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 1.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Nostoceras hyatti ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Les Vignes Unit. Ammonites from the lower part of the unit belong to the topmost Campanian Nostoceras hyatti zone. The base of the Maastrichtian is at 115.2 m in the Les Vignes unit.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, cherty/siliceous limestone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, chemical, mechanical, sieve

Primary reference: G. S. Odin. 2001. The Campanian-Maastrichtian stage boundary. Development in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy 19:1-881 [L. Villier/L. Villier/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 213915: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.09.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Calycina - Phymosomatidae
Rachiosoma corollare Leske 1778 sea urchin