Gironde Estuary, Assise Q (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (45.6° N, 1.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.6° N, 0.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified carbonate

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the MNHN

• Repository: Repository: Ecole des Mines collection (EMP), at University Claude Bernard Lyon in the 1980s (now at MNHN)

Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy. 1986. Campanian and Maastrichtian ammonites from northern Aquitaine, France. Special Papers in Palaeontology 36:1-145 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 165833: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.01.2015

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae