Where: France (44.3° N, 5.2° E: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 10.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Stoliczkaia dispar zone, Marnes bleues Formation, Early/Lower Albian to Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 105.3 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified carbonate and lithified marl

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: cast, replaced with calcite, replaced with pyrite

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: A. S. Gale, W. J. Kennedy, J.A. Burnett, M. Caron, and B.E. Kidd. 1996. The late Albian to Early Cenomanian succession at Mount Risou near Rosans (Drôme, SE France): an integrated study (ammonites, inoceramids, planktonic foraminifera, nannofossils, oxygen and carbon isotopes). Cretaceous Research 17:515-606 [F. Fursich/D. Hempfling/D. Hempfling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13499: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Danica Hempfling on 09.04.2002, edited by Jonathan Tennant

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