Road from Nalzen to Freychenet (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (42.9° N, 1.7° E: paleocoordinates 30.3° N, 4.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Forresteria petrocoriensis ammonoid zone, Marnes a Micraster Formation, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, glauconitic, gray limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy, M. Bilotte, and P. Melchior. 1995. Ammonite faunas, biostratigraphy, and sequence stratigraphy of the Coniacian-Santonian of the Corbières (NE Pyrénées). Bulletin des Centres de Recherches Elf Exploration-Production Elf-Aquitaine 19:377-499 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179255: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.06.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
"Pachydiscus canali n. sp." = Tongoboryceras canali
"Pachydiscus canali n. sp." = Tongoboryceras canali de Grossouvre 1894 ammonite