Villers, near Dives (Jurassic of France)

Where: France (49.3° N, 0.0° W: paleocoordinates 39.5° N, 10.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Marnes de Dives Formation, Late/Upper Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• Upper part of "Argile de Dives", Oxfordian of d'Orbigny (now considered Upper Callovian)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BSP

• Repository: Sammlung des Bayerische Staates in München

Primary reference: K. C. von Loesch. 1914. Die Nautilen des weissen Jura. Palaeontographica 61:57-146 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 171497: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.07.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Paracenoceratidae
"Nautilus ex gr. giganteus" = Paracenoceras giganteum
"Nautilus ex gr. giganteus" = Paracenoceras giganteum d'Orbigny 1843 nautiloid