Carrières de la Ribochère, Couture (Laville collection, zone B) (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (47.7° N, 0.7° E: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 2.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Paratexanites serratomarginatus ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Coniacian (89.3 - 85.8 Ma)

• Couche a Ostrea auricularis, de Grossouvre's Zone B and Bed 4 of Kennedy (1984)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal grainstone

• "Well-cemented biosparite"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Laville

• Repository: Ecole des Mines, Paris (now Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon)

Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy. 1984. Systematic palaeontology and stratigraphic distribution of the ammonite faunas of the French Coniacian. Special Papers in Palaeontology 31:1-160 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117203: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.09.2011

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae
Paratexanites serratomarginatus Redtenbacher 1873 ammonite