Also known as Bellevue
Where: Region Aquitaine, France (44.7° N, 0.2° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 39.7° N, 4.5° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Rupelian (33.9 - 27.3 Ma)
• The stratigraphic placement corresponds to the Lower Stampian
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; marl
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with calcite, replaced with phosphate
Primary reference: G. Astre. 1954. Gisements les plus orientaux d'Halitherium dans le Stampien marin du Bordelais. Bulletin du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse 89(3-4):225-227 [E. Fara/E. Fara/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 35969: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 12.01.2004
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Halitherium schinzi" = Halitherium schinzii
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Bivalvia | |
"Ostrea cyathula" = Crassostrea cyathula, "Ostrea longirostris" = Ostrea roncana
"Ostrea cyathula" = Crassostrea cyathula Lamarck 1806 oyster
"Ostrea longirostris" = Ostrea roncana Partsch 1870 oyster |