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 | |
Rachiosoma corollare Leske 1778 sea urchin |