Issac (Dordogne), Assise R: Late/Upper Campanian, France
collected by Marmot
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Sphenodiscidae
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Sphenodiscus sp.
Meek 1871
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Geography
| Country: | France |
| Coordinates: | 45.0° North, 0.4° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.9° North, 2.0° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: The preservation of the specimen and locality suggest it is from Assise R of Arnaud | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "carbonate" |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | MNHN |
| Collectors: | Marmot |
| Collection method comments: Repository: Repository: Ecole des Mines collection (EMP), at University Claude Bernard Lyon in the 1980s (now at MNHN) | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 165896 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-01-30 21:47:32 | Last modified: | 2015-01-30 21:47:56 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-01-30 21:47:32 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 54187. | W. J. Kennedy. 1986. Campanian and Maastrichtian ammonites from northern Aquitaine, France. Special Papers in Palaeontology 36:1-145 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |