VGL 107, Vergol (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (44.2° N, 5.4° E: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 14.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Saynoceras verrucosum ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• Neocomiensis 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 202985: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.07.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phylloceras sp., "Ptychophylloceras semisulcatum" = Phylloceras semisulcatum, "Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) tethys" = Euphylloceras thetys
Phylloceras sp. Suess 1865 ammonite
"Ptychophylloceras semisulcatum" = Phylloceras semisulcatum d'Orbigny 1842 ammonite
"Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) tethys" = Euphylloceras thetys d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Haploceratidae
Neolissoceras salinarium Uhlig 1887 ammonite
Neolissoceras grasianum d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
Neolissoceras cornutus Atrops and Reboulet 1995 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Bochianitidae
Bochianites neocomiensis d'Orbigny 1842 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
Neocomites sp. Uhlig 1905 ammonite
Neocomites neocomiensis d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
Neocomites platycostatus Sayn 1907 ammonite
"Neocomites teschenensis" = Neocomites (Eristavites) teschenensis Uhlig 1902 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Lytoceras sp. Suess 1865 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae
Olcostephanus sp. Neumayr 1875 ammonite