Level I.2, Prahecquense horizon, Saint-Vincent-sur-Jard, Vendée (Jurassic of France)

Where: France (46.4° N, 1.6° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° N, 9.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: bullatus ammonoid zone, Prahecquense Member, Early/Lower Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• Macrocephalus zone, Bullatus sub-zone, Prahecquense horizon, 0.18m

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, fine-grained, ooidal packstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: E. Cariou. 1974. La série callovienne du Nord-Ouest du bassin d'Aquitaine. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Serie D: Sciences Naturelles 279(4):307-310 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 60422: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 15.05.2006

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Tulitidae
"Bomburites prahecquense" = Kheraiceras (Bomburites), Treptoceras microstoma
"Bomburites prahecquense" = Kheraiceras (Bomburites) ammonite
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Choffatia sp. Siemiradzki 1898 ammonite