ammonites
Meilhan (Miocene of France)

Where: Aquitaine, France (43.9° N, 0.7° W: paleocoordinates 43.8° N, 2.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Unknown lithostratigraphic data. THICKNESS: From unit of unknown thickness AGE: Aquitanian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within section.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

• ENVIRONMENT: Unknown.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, assumed based of figured specimens, excellent preservation, free of sediment.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Reposited in the MNHN

• COLLECTORS: Unknown. REPOSITORY: MNHN, Paris.

Primary reference: P. Lozouet. 1998. Nouvelles espéces de gastéropodes (Mollusca: Gastropoda) de L'Oligocéne et di Miocéne inférieur de"Aquitaine (sud-ouest de la France). Cossmanniana 5(3-4):61-102 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 74865: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 31.08.2007, edited by Uta Merkel

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