La Rochette, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence: Early/Lower Santonian - Late/Upper Santonian, France
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Nostoceratidae
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Hyphantoceras sp.
Hyatt 1900
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Collignoniceratidae
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Texanites collignoni
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2 specimens | ||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Desmoceratidae
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Parapuzosia daubreei
(de Groussouvre 1894)
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Pachydiscidae
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Pachydiscus sp.
Zittel 1884
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Eupachydiscus isculensis
(Redtenbacher 1873)
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | France |
| Coordinates: | 43.9° North, 6.9° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 33.9° North, 8.0° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Santonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Santonian - Late/Upper Santonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 86.30000 - 83.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "mixed carbonate-siliciclastic" |
| Lithology description: Based on the general description of the Alpes-Maritimes and Alpes-de-Haute-Provence: 'Le Santonien, beaucoup plus argileux, est formé d'une puissante série de marnes compactes coupées de lits de calcaire argileux.' | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:Focus on ammonites. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 69872 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Aberhan | Enterer: | S. Nurnberg |
| Modifier: | S. Nurnberg | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-03-08 07:16:45 | Last modified: | 2007-03-09 03:53:11 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-03-08 07:16:45 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 23441. | G. Thomel. 1988. Les ammonites néocrétacées des chaînes subalpines méridionales. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France (153)1-79 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg] |