Carrière Bernès, between Gan and Rébénacq (de Grossouvre collection) (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (43.2° N, 0.4° W: paleocoordinates 35.3° N, 0.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Marnes de Nay Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: EMP: Ecole des Mines Collections, now in the Université Claude Bernard, Lyon

Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy and J. M. Hancock. 1993. Upper Maastrichtian ammonites from the Marnes de Nay between Gan and Rébénacq (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), France. Geobios 26:575-594 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 165599: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.01.2015

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) jacquoti Seunes 1890 ammonite
Pachydiscus neubergicus in de Grossouvre
Menuites fresvillensis Seunes 1890 ammonite
Pachydiscus colligatus
 Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
"Gaudryceras colloti n. sp." = Pseudophyllites indra
"Gaudryceras colloti n. sp." = Pseudophyllites indra Forbes 1846 ammonite