North of Wissant, level P5 (Cretaceous to of France)

Where: Pas-de-Calais, France (50.9° N, 1.7° E: paleocoordinates 39.3° N, 5.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dipoloceras cristatum or Hysteroceras orbignyi ammonoid zone, Gault Formation, Middle Albian to Middle Albian (109.0 - 99.6 Ma)

• Middle Albian (Euhoplites lautus zone, Dipoloceras cristatum subzone) or Upper Albian (Mortoniceras inflatum zone, Hysteroceras orbignyi), phosphate nodule P5 level.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, nodular, phosphatic claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by F. Amedro

• Repository: collection of F. Amedro

Primary reference: F. Amedro. 1976. Une nouvelle espèce d'Ammonite: Neophlycticeras (Eotropitoides) destombesi nov. sp. (Lyelliceratidae) de l'Albien de Wissant (Boulonnais). Annales de la Société Géologique du Nord 96:107-112 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 169539: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.05.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Lyelliceratidae
"Neophlycticeras (Eotropitoides) destombesi n. sp." = Neophlycticeras (Neophlycticeras) brottianum
"Neophlycticeras (Eotropitoides) destombesi n. sp." = Neophlycticeras (Neophlycticeras) brottianum d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite