Where: France (43.9° N, 3.1° E: paleocoordinates 32.4° N, 14.6° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Marnes de Fontaneilles Formation, Bifrons (182.0 - 175.6 Ma)
• Bifrons subzone (upper part of bed 95, about 1 m above base of unit)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; lithified marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: All studied belemnites are housed at the National Museum of Natural History, Luxembourg (MNHNL). Collected ammonites are housed at the University of Burgundy, France (UBGD, coll. Neige and Pinard).
Primary reference: J. D. Pinard, R. Weis, P. Neige, N. Mariotti, and A. Di Cencio. 2014. Belemnites from the Upper Pliensbachian and the Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) of Tournadous (Causses, France). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 273:155-177 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 161648: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.09.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Acrocoelites levidensis Simpson 1855 belemnite |