Highway A10, France (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (45.4° N, 4.2° E: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 5.5° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: glauconitic, argillaceous carbonate

Primary reference: H. A. Kollmann. 1985. Upper Cretaceous Gastropods from Excavations for the Highway A10 (Charente, France). Cretaceous Research 6:85-111 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3732: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 09.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Gordenellidae
"Turritella unicarinata" = Clathrobaculus humberti
"Turritella unicarinata" = Clathrobaculus humberti Quenstedt 1856 snail
 Heterostropha - Nerineidae
Nerinea sp. Deshayes 1827 snail
 Pleurotomarioidea - Pleurotomariidae
Conotomaria sp. Cox 1959 snail
originally entered as "Contomaria sp."
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Discotectus sp. Favre 1913 top snail
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
"Pseudamaura supracretacea" = Ampullina (Pseudamaura)
"Pseudamaura supracretacea" = Ampullina (Pseudamaura) snail
originally entered as "Pseudomaura supracretacea"
 Neogastropoda -
cf. Diconomorpha strombiformis snail
originally entered as "Diconomorpha cf. strombiformis"