Fontfroide, Narbonne, rudist biostrome (Cretaceous of France)

Also known as Reef 1269

Where: France (43.2° N, 3.0° E: paleocoordinates 33.2° N, 4.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• Hippurites biostrome

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. Freytet. 1973. Edifices recifaux developpes dans un environnement detritique: exemple des biostromes a Hippurites (rudistes) du Senonien inferieur du sillon languedocien (region de Narbonne, sud de la France) [Reef building in a detritic environment: the biostromes with Hippurites (rudists) in the lower Senonian of the Languedocian furrow (Narbonne region, southern France)]. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 13:65-76 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 74500: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.08.2007

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Taxonomic list

Demospongiae
 Clavulina - Clionaidae
Cliona sp. demosponge
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Brachyseris sp. Alloiteau 1947 stony coral
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Radiolites sp. Lamarck 1801 rudist