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: Craie de Villedieu Formation, Coniacian (89.8 - 86.3 Ma)

• From the "Calcaires durs de la base de la Craie de Villedieu" (hard limestone at the base of the Villedieu chalk). Cannot be precisely dated and may be from the petrocoriensis, tridorsatum, or margae zones.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Abbé Bourgeois; reposited in the MNHN

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 178942: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.05.2016

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