Escragnolles (Var) (Upper Greensand) (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (43.7° N, 6.8° E: paleocoordinates 32.4° N, 11.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• "Upper Greensand" is a British lithological unit but there are glauconitic units of Albian age at Escragnolles.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: A. H. Foord and G. C. Crick. 1890. On some new and imperfectly-defined species of Jurassic, Cretaceous, and Tertiary Nautili contained in the British Museum (Natural History). The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Sixth Series 6:388-409 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 171512: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.07.2015

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Mojsisovicsiidae
"Dipoloceras semicornutum n. sp." = Dipoloceroides semicornutum3
"Dipoloceras semicornutum n. sp." = Dipoloceroides semicornutum3 Spath 1931 ammonite
ex. Astier collection
 Ammonitida - Lyelliceratidae
Lyelliceras latili n. sp.2 Kennedy and Klinger 2008 ammonite
Pl 3, fig 19 in Latil, 1995
Lyelliceras escragnollensis n. sp.1 Kennedy 2011 ammonite
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
Nautilus triangularis Montfort 1802 nautiloid