Maurens-le-Bost (Dordogne), Assise R (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (44.9° N, 0.5° E: paleocoordinates 35.8° N, 2.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Dr. M. Neumann places this section in foraminifer biozone CVII, equivalent to bed 9 or 10 or the Maurens borehole

Environment/lithology: lithified carbonate

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the OUM

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 165912: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.01.2015

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites "sp. 6" Lamarck 1799 ammonite