Sample II 15.8, Tercis-les-Bains (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Landes, France (43.7° N, 1.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 1.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• D'Avenac Unit. Oldest ammonites from the base of the d'Avenac unit include Hoplitoplacenticeras dolbergense and small heteromorphs of the genus Pseudoxybeloceras, indicating a Late Campanian age for the unit. The base of the Maastrichtian is at 115.2 m in the overlying Les Vignes unit.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: chemical, mechanical, sieve,

Primary reference: G. S. Odin. 2001. The Campanian-Maastrichtian stage boundary. Development in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy 19:1-881 [L. Villier/L. Villier/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 38807: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 05.05.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Asteroidea
 Valvatida - Goniasteridae
Crateraster quinqueloba4 Goldfuss 1833 sea star
Ophiuroidea
 Ophiurida - Ophiosphalmidae
? Ophiomusium "n. sp."3 Lyman 1869 brittle star
Ophiomusium "n. sp. 1"3 Lyman 1869 brittle star
Ophiomusium "n. sp. 2"3 Lyman 1869 brittle star
Ophiomusium sp.3 Lyman 1869 brittle star
Ophiomusium granulosum3 Roemer 1841 brittle star
 Ophiurida - Ophiuridae
"Ophiotitanos serrata" = Ophiura serrata3
"Ophiotitanos serrata" = Ophiura serrata3 Roemer 1841 brittle star
 Ophiurida - Ophiopyrgidae
? Stegophiura hagenowi3 Rasmussen 1950 brittle star
 Ophiacanthida - Ophiodermatidae
? Ophioderma cf. substriatum3 Rasmussen 1950 brittle star
 Ophiacanthida - Ophiocomidae
? Ophiocoma rasmusseni3 Hess 1960 brittle star
? Ophiocoma senonensis3 Valette 1914 brittle star
 Amphilepidida - Ophiolepididae
? Ophiolepis "n. sp."3 Müller and Troschel 1840 brittle star
Crinoidea
 Roveacrinida - Saccocomidae
Applinocrinus cretaceus2 Bather 1924 Sea lily
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Chlidonophoridae
Rugia cf. spinicostata1 Johansen 1987