Bas Auran, bed 8 (Jurassic of France)

Where: France (44.0° N, 6.3° E: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 16.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Zigzagiceras zigzag ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• Morphoceras macrescens subzone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collected by Sturani

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• REPOSITORY: Museo di Geologia e Paleontologia at the University of Torino (code PU).

Primary reference: G. Pavia. 2007. Lissoceras monachum (Gemmellaro), a ghost Ammonitida of the Tethyan Bathonian. Bollettino della Societá Paleontologica Italiana 45(2-3):217-226 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 157805: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.07.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Lissoceratidae
Lissoceras magnum Galacz 1980 ammonite