Where: Aquitaine Region, France (44.8° N, 0.3° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 39.7° N, 4.7° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Rupelian (33.9 - 27.3 Ma)
• Lower Stampien
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; marl
Size class: macrofossils
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 35971: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 12.01.2004
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 oyster | |
Mammalia | |
Halitherium sp. Kaup 1838 dugong | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Elasmobranchii indet. Bonaparte 1838 elasmobranch |