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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
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Asteroidea | |
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Ophiuroidea | |
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cf. Ophioscolex "n. sp."4 Müller and Troschel 1842 brittle star two distinct species identified as sp. 1 and sp. 2
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"Ophiotitanos serrata" = Ophiura serrata4
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Rhynchonellata | |
Meonia semiglobularis2 Posselt 1894
Rugia cf. spinicostata2 Johansen 1987 | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Pachydiscus haldemsis" = Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) haldemsis1
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