La Lèque, Méjannes-le-Clap (Baudouin collection) (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Gard, France (44.2° N, 4.4° E: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 14.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nicklesia pulchella ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. Baudouin

Primary reference: G. Delanoy, C. Baudouin, R. Gonnet, G. Conte, and C. Frau. 2012. Sur la présence des genres Heminautilus Spath, 1927 et Eucymatoceras Spath, 1927 (Nautilida, Nautilaceae) dans le Barrémien inférieur du Gard (sud-est de la France). Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Nice 28:155-195 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167342: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.03.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Cenoceratidae
Heminautilus boselliorum n. sp. Delanoy et al. 2012 nautiloid
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
Cymatoceras neocomiense d'Orbigny 1840 nautiloid
Eucymatoceras plicatum Fitton 1835 nautiloid