Abbecourt (Paleocene of France)

Where: Oise, France (49.4° N, 2.2° E: paleocoordinates 43.9° N, 0.1° W)

When: NP9 foram zone, Sables de Bracheux Formation, Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: B. Caze, D. Merle, J. M. Pacaud and J. P. Saint Martin. 2010. First systematic study using the variability of the residual colour patterns: the case of the Paleogene Seraphsidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Stromboidea). Geodiversitas 32(3):417-477 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 177978: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 12.04.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Seraphsidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Rostellariidae
"Tibia (Wateletia) callosa" = Wateletia callosa2
"Tibia (Wateletia) callosa" = Wateletia callosa2 Deshayes 1835 snail
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Popenoeum prima5 Defrance 1827 true whelk
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Nucellopsis ponsi1 murex snail
 Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Crassatellidae