Level I.3, 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: Early/Lower Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• Macrocephalus zone, Bullatus sub-zone, Prahecquense horizon, 0.11m

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, ferruginous limestone

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 60424: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 15.05.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Choffatia sp. Siemiradzki 1898 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Tulitidae
Bomburites aeropus d'Orbigny 1850 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Macrocephalitidae
Algae
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Cancellophycus sp. Saporta 1872