ammonites
Astarte, Redonien, Thorigné d'Anjou, Maine-et-Loire (Pliocene of France)

Where: France (47.6° N, 0.7° W: paleocoordinates 47.7° N, 1.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Redonien Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Lauriat. 1973. Les sous-espèces redoniennes d'Astarte omalii Jonkaire, considérées d'un point de vue biogéographique. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Sciences de la Terre 194:177-182 [L. Villier/L. Villier] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 60641: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 19.05.2006