Northwestern Aquitaine (UP collection) (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (45.8° N, 0.7° W: paleocoordinates 35.6° N, 1.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mammites nodosoides ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• Preservation indicates that specimen comes from 5.5-9.25 m interval near Taillebourg.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified carbonate

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Department des Sciences de la Terre et Environment, Université de Poitiers.

Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy and A. S. Gale. 2016. Turonian ammonites from northwestern Aquitaine, France. Cretaceous Research 58:265-296 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174895: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.11.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Vascoceratidae
Neoptychites cephalotus
Neoptychites cephalotus Courtiller 1860 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Morrowites wingi, "Spathites (Jeanrogericeras) revelerianus" = Spathites (Jeanrogericeras) reveliereanus, Spathites (Jeanrogericeras) tavense, Spathites (Jeanrogericeras) combesi
Morrowites wingi Morrow 1935 ammonite
"Spathites (Jeanrogericeras) revelerianus" = Spathites (Jeanrogericeras) reveliereanus Courtiller 1860 ammonite