Le Chouet, bed 85 (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 174771: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.11.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Bochianitidae
? Bochianites sp.1
? Bochianites sp.1 Lory 1898 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Protancyloceratidae
Protancyloceras sp.1
Protancyloceras sp.1 Spath 1924 ammonoid
 Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
"Busnardoiceras busnardoi" = Busnardoiceras busnardoi1, ""Berriasella" tithonica" = Busnardoiceras busnardoi1
"Busnardoiceras busnardoi" = Busnardoiceras busnardoi1 Le Hegarat 1973 ammonite
""Berriasella" tithonica" = Busnardoiceras busnardoi1 Le Hegarat 1973 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Himalayitidae
Himalayitidae indet.1, Ardesciella cf. rhodanica1, Dalmasiceras sp.1, Protacanthodiscus andreaei, Protacanthodiscus hexagonus, "Boughdiriella chouetensis" = Boughdiriella chouetense
Himalayitidae indet.1 Spath 1925 ammonite
Ardesciella cf. rhodanica1 Mazenot 1939 ammonite
Dalmasiceras sp.1 ammonite
Protacanthodiscus andreaei Kilian 1889 ammonite
Protacanthodiscus hexagonus Tavera 1985 ammonite
"Boughdiriella chouetensis" = Boughdiriella chouetense Frau et al. 2015 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
Cyrtosiceras aff. macrotelum1
 Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae
Proniceras pronum2
Proniceras pronum2 Oppel 1868 ammonite
1Bulot et al. 2014; 2Frau et al. 2016