Perte du Rhône, Bellegarde-sur-Valserine (niveau 38) (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Ain, France (46.1° N, 5.8° E: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 7.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic, nodular, phosphatic sandstone

• Phosphatic nodules in reddish-brown and blue glauconitic sand

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Jayet

• Repository: Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva (MNHG)

Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy and M. Delamette. 1994. Neophlycticeras Spath, 1922 (Ammonoidea) from the Upper Albian of Ain, France. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 191:1-24 [L. Bulot/L. Bulot/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175368: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.12.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Lyelliceratidae
Neophlycticeras (Neophlycticeras) rhodanense n. sp., Neophlycticeras (Neophlycticeras) brottianum, Neophlycticeras (Protissotia) itierianum
Neophlycticeras (Neophlycticeras) rhodanense n. sp. Delamette 1983 ammonite