La Vallée de la Roche, southeast of St. Paterne-Racan (bed 1b) (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (47.6° N, 0.5° E: paleocoordinates 37.6° N, 2.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gauthiericeras margae ammonoid zone, Craie de Villedieu Formation, Late/Upper Coniacian (89.3 - 85.8 Ma)

• Base of bed 1b

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the OUM

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 179029: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.05.2016

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae
Gauthiericeras boreaui de Grossouvre 1894 ammonite