Tuilerie de Gan (Ledon collection) (Eocene of France)

Where: France (43.2° N, 0.4° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 34.5° N, 6.4° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Marnes de Gan Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• Middle-Late Ypresian / Top NP 12 and NP 13 zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; unlithified, gray marl and claystone

• circalittoral, quiet environment, whereas the upper part represents inner neritic environments.
• greyish-blue marls and clays, locally a little sandy

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collected by D. Ledon; reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: L. Dolin and D. Ledon. 2002. Nouveaux taxons et discussion de la systématique des genres correspondants d’Ovulidae (Mollusca, Caenogastropoda) de l’Éocène inférieur de Gan (France). Geodiversitas 24(2):329-347 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 183756: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.01.2017

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Eocypraeidae
Sphaerocypraea tardivelae n. sp.
Sphaerocypraea tardivelae n. sp. Dolin and Ledon 2002 snail
 Neogastropoda - Ancillariidae
Spirancilla nana
Spirancilla nana Rouault 1850 snail