Vallon de Cabaresse, near Salazac (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Gard, France (44.3° N, 4.5° E: paleocoordinates 32.8° N, 6.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mortoniceras fallax ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• Lower part of the Stoliczkaia dispar zone (S. (Faraudiella) gardonica subzone of authors)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Sorbonne (now Universite Paris VI)

Primary reference: C. W. Wright and W. J. Kennedy. 1979. Origin and evolution of the Cretaceous micromorph ammonite family Flickiidae. Palaeontology 22:685-704 [L. Bulot/L. Bulot/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178192: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.04.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Flickiidae
"Ammonites salazacensis n. sp." = Salaziceras (Salaziceras) salazacense
"Ammonites salazacensis n. sp." = Salaziceras (Salaziceras) salazacense Hébert and Munier-Chalmas 1875 ammonite