Le Chouet, bed 83 (Jurassic of France)

Where: France (44.5° N, 5.6° E: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 14.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Protacanthodiscus andreaei ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified lime mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Musée Paléontologique de Provence (MPP) of Aix-Marseille University

Primary reference: C. Frau, L. G. Bulot, and W. A. P. Wimbledon. 2015. Upper Tithonian Himalayitidae Spath, 1925 (Perisphinctoidea, Ammonitina) from Le Chouet (Drôme, France): implications for the systematics. Geologica Carpathica 66:117-132 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174769: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.11.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
Busnardoiceras busnardoi1 Le Hegarat 1973 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Himalayitidae
Dalmasiceras sp.1, Pratumidiscus elsae n. gen. n. sp.1, Protacanthodiscus andreaei, "Boughdiriella chouetensis n. gen. n. sp." = Boughdiriella chouetense
Pratumidiscus elsae n. gen. n. sp.1 Bulot et al. 2014 ammonite
Protacanthodiscus andreaei Kilian 1889 ammonite
"Boughdiriella chouetensis n. gen. n. sp." = Boughdiriella chouetense Frau et al. 2015 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae
Proniceras pronum2 Oppel 1868 ammonite