Puy de Fourches (Dordogne), Assise P1 (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (45.4° N, 0.7° E: paleocoordinates 36.3° N, 2.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lithified carbonate

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Arnaud; reposited in the MNHN

• Repository: Sorbonne collection (SP), at University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 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 165920: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.01.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
"Scaphites (Scaphites) hippocrepis" = Scaphites hippocrepis
"Scaphites (Scaphites) hippocrepis" = Scaphites hippocrepis DeKay 1828 ammonite