Sample II 98.0, 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)

• D'Avenac Unit. Oldest ammonites from the base of the d'Avenac unit include Hoplitoplacenticeras dolbergense and small heteromorphs of the genus Pseudoxybeloceras, indicating a Late Campanian age for the unit. The base of the Maastrichtian is at 115.2 m in the overlying Les Vignes unit.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

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 38811: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 05.05.2004, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Nostoceratidae
Nostoceras (Nostoceras) approximans5, "Nostoceras (Nostoceras) hyatti" = Nostoceras hyatti5
"Nostoceras (Nostoceras) hyatti" = Nostoceras hyatti5 Stephenson 1941 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Desmophyllites larteti2 Seunes 1891 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Kossmaticeratidae
Pseudokossmaticeras sp.3 Spath 1922 ammonite
Pseudokossmaticeras tercense3 Seunes 1891 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
"Pachydiscus haldemsis" = Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) haldemsis2
"Pachydiscus haldemsis" = Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) haldemsis2 Schluter 1867 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Mitridae
Mesorhytis granulosa4 Favre 1869 mitre shell
Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Pseudocoracidae
Pseudocorax affinis1 Agassiz 1843 mackerel shark