LCH251, La Charce (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (44.5° N, 5.5° E: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 14.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lyticoceras nodosoplicatum ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)

• Nodosoplicatum subzone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Faculté des Sciences, Lyon

Primary reference: S. Reboulet. 1996. L'évolution des ammonites du Valanginien-Hauterivien inférieur du bassin Vocontien et de la plate-form Provençale (sud-est de la France): relations avec la stratigraphie séquentielle et implications biostratigraphiques. Documents des Laboratoires de Géologie Lyon 137:1-371 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 202659: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.07.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phyllopachyceras infundibulum d'Orbigny 1840 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Holcodiscidae
Spitidiscus sp. Kilian 1910 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Lytoceras sp. Suess 1865 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Crioceratitidae
Crioceratites sp. Leveillé 1837 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
Lyticoceras sp. Hyatt 1900 ammonite
Lyticoceras nodosoplicatum Kilian and Reboul 1915 ammonite
Lyticoceras cryptoceras d'Orbigny 1840 ammonite