Tauché (zigzag zone) (Jurassic of France)

Where: Deux-Sèvres, France (46.3° N, 0.3° W: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 10.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Patrick Branger

Primary reference: P. Branger. 2004. Middle Jurassic Nautiloidea from western France. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 110:141-149 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167334: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.03.2015

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Cenoceratidae
Pictonautilus ex gr. clavifer Tinant 1994 nautiloid