Orgues. Bed 5 (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (47.1° N, 3.6° E: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 4.9° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Mantelliceras mantelli ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

• These deposits intergrade with terrestrial ones, so they much be coastal.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. Monnet and H. Bucher. 1999. Biochronologie quantitative (associations unitaires) des faunes d'ammonites du Cenomanien du Sud-Est de la France. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 17(5):599-610 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 230875: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 24.07.2023

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Mantelliceras couloni, Mantelliceras picteti, "Mantelliceras hyatti" = Mantelliceras saxbii
Mantelliceras couloni d'Orbigny 1850 ammonite
Mantelliceras picteti Hyatt 1903 ammonite
"Mantelliceras hyatti" = Mantelliceras saxbii Sharpe 1857 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Hoplitidae
Hyphoplites falcatus
Hyphoplites falcatus Mantell 1822 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Schloenbachiidae
Schloenbachia varians
Schloenbachia varians Sowerby 1817 ammonite