Montreuil-Bellay (athleta zone) (Jurassic of France)

Where: Maine et Loire, France (47.1° N, 0.2° W: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 10.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Peltoceras athleta ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Rantien

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 167341: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.03.2015

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Paracenoceratidae
Paracenoceras "nov. sp." Spath 1927 nautiloid