Martrou, near Rochefort (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Charente-Maritime, France (45.9° N, 1.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 0.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified carbonate

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the MNHN

• Repository: Sorbonne collection (SP), at University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris

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 174904: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.11.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae
"Ammonites carolinus n. sp." = Collignoniceras carolinum
"Ammonites carolinus n. sp." = Collignoniceras carolinum d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite