Sample II 20.8, 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: bulk, quarrying, surface (in situ), 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 38808: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 05.05.2004

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Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
 Roveacrinida - Saccocomidae
Applinocrinus cretaceus3 Bather 1924 Sea lily
Asteroidea
 Valvatida - Stauranderasteridae
Hadranderaster "sp. B"5 Spencer 1907 sea star
Ophiuroidea
 Amphilepidida - Ophiolepididae
? Ophiolepis sp.4 Müller and Troschel 1840 brittle star
 Ophiacanthida - Ophiocomidae
? Ophiocoma cf. senonensis4 Valette 1914 brittle star
 Ophioscolecida - Ophioscolecidae
cf. Ophioscolex "n. sp."4 Müller and Troschel 1842 brittle star
two distinct species identified as sp. 1 and sp. 2
 Ophiurida - Ophiosphalmidae
Ophiomusium "n. sp. 2"4 Lyman 1869 brittle star
Ophiomusium "n. sp."4 Lyman 1869 brittle star
 Ophiurida - Ophiuridae
"Ophiotitanos serrata" = Ophiura serrata4
"Ophiotitanos serrata" = Ophiura serrata4 Roemer 1841 brittle star
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Chlidonophoridae
Meonia semiglobularis2 Posselt 1894
Rugia cf. spinicostata2 Johansen 1987
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
"Pachydiscus haldemsis" = Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) haldemsis1
"Pachydiscus haldemsis" = Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) haldemsis1 Schluter 1867 ammonite