Colline de Bernon, near Tresques (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Gard, France (44.1° N, 4.6° E: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 5.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Faraud in 1934

• Repository: possibly Société d'Étude des Sciences Naturelles de Vaucluse

Primary reference: M. Faraud. 1940. Le genre Vascoceras dans le Turonien du Gard. Bulletin de la Société d'Étude des Sciences Naturelles de Vaucluse 3:40-57 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 170945: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.06.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Vascoceratidae
"Vascoceras (Pachyvascoceras) harttiformis" = Vascoceras kossmati, "Vascoceras (Pachyvascoceras) durandi" = Vascoceras durandi, "Vascoceras (Pachyvascoceras) bernonense" = Fagesia catinus
"Vascoceras (Pachyvascoceras) harttiformis" = Vascoceras kossmati Choffat 1898 ammonite
"Vascoceras (Pachyvascoceras) durandi" = Vascoceras durandi Thomas and Peron 1889 ammonite
"Vascoceras (Pachyvascoceras) bernonense" = Fagesia catinus Mantell 1822 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
"Vascoceras tavense n. sp." = Spathites (Jeanrogericeras) tavense Faraud 1940 ammonite
Vascoceras (Paramammites) furoni Faraud 1940 ammonite