Escragnolles (Var) (Neocomian) (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (43.7° N, 6.8° E: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 16.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)

• Type locality of the species is the Barremian of Saint Martin, Escragnolles, so a Barremian age is assumed here.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

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 171514: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.07.2015

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
"Nautilus neocomiensis" = Cymatoceras neocomiense
"Nautilus neocomiensis" = Cymatoceras neocomiense d'Orbigny 1840 nautiloid