Where: France (47.7° N, 0.7° E: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 2.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Paratexanites serratomarginatus ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Coniacian (89.3 - 85.8 Ma)
• Couche a Ostrea auricularis, de Grossouvre's Zone B and Bed 4 of Kennedy (1984)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal grainstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by Seunes
• Repository: Faculté des Sciences, Rennes
Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy. 1984. Systematic palaeontology and stratigraphic distribution of the ammonite faunas of the French Coniacian. Special Papers in Palaeontology 31:1-160 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 178812: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.05.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Paratexanites serratomarginatus Redtenbacher 1873 ammonite |