Where: France (49.2° N, 2.0° E: paleocoordinates 47.1° N, 1.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: NP 16-17 nannofossil zone, Sables de Cresnes Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• The Cresnes and Marines sands are referred to the middle Eocene, and more precisely to either the NP 16 biozone (Aubry 1988) or the NP 17 biozone (Aubry 1983, 1988 ; Cavelier & Pomerol 1983). "Marinesian" in local stratigraphy.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: foreshore; poorly lithified, coarse-grained sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J.M. Pacaud; reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: J.-M. Pacaud. 2003. First fossil records of the Recent Ovulid genus Pseudocypraea Schilder, 1927 (Mollusca, Gastropoda) with description of a new species. Geodiversitas 25(3):451-462 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 177068: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 18.03.2016, edited by Vanessa Maciel

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