Ammonites from the vallée de Louyre (Ardèche) region - Platynota biozone (Jurassic of France)

Where: France (44.1° N, 4.2° E: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 13.8° E)

When: Platynota zone, Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified carbonate and lithified, concretionary marl

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: F. Atrops. 1982. La sous-famille des Ataxioceratinae (Ammonitina) dans le Kimméridgien inférieur du sud-est de la France Systématique, Évolution, Chronostratigraphie des Genres Orthosphinctes et Ataxioceras. Documents Laboratoire Géologie Lyon (83)1-463 [F. Fursich/F. Fursich/P. Scofield]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 12348: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Danica Hempfling on 29.10.2001, edited by Franz Fursich

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
Taramelliceras rigidum Wegele 1929 ammonite
Taramelliceras subnereus Wegele 1929 ammonite
Glochiceras lingulatum Quenstedt 1858 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Ataxioceratidae
Orthosphinctes (Lithacosphinctes) evolutus, "Orthosphinctes (Orthosphinctes) polygyratus" = Orthosphinctes polygyratus
"Orthosphinctes (Orthosphinctes) polygyratus" = Orthosphinctes polygyratus Reinecke 1818 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Aspidoceratidae
Sutneria platynota Reinecke 1818 ammonite