CHE bed 203, Cheiron ravine (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (43.9° N, 6.5° E: paleocoordinates 34.6° N, 15.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Crioceratites claveli ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)

• Olcostephanus jeannoti subzone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by D. Bert

• Repository: RNNGHP, Reserve Naturelle Nationale Géologique de Haute-Provence (France)

Primary reference: D. Bert, S. Reboulet, B. Vernet, S. Bersac, and L. Canut. 2021. Early Crioceratites (heteromorphic ammonites) from the lower Hauterivian of south-eastern France: systematics, intraspecific variation and biostratigraphic implications. Cretaceous Research 126(104903) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 220971: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.06.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Crioceratitidae
 Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae
Olcostephanus jeannoti d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite