Les Pastressis, RO6 (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (42.9° N, 2.4° E: paleocoordinates 31.4° N, 4.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Peroniceras tridorsatum ammonoid zone, Middle Coniacian (89.3 - 85.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Patrice Melchior

• Repository: UPS Toulouse

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 179736: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.06.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae
Paratexanites zeilleri de Grossouvre 1894 ammonite