Arbailles (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (43.1° N, 1.0° W: paleocoordinates 31.8° N, 9.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: A. Poignant. 1967. Les algues des calcaires aptiens et albiens d'Aquitaine méridionale. Revue de Micropaléontologie 10(4):271-276 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 148645: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 23.07.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Bacinella irregularis Radoicic 1959
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Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Boueina sp. Toula 1883
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Neomeris aff. cretacea Steinmann 1899
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae