Ammonoids, Marnes à Digonella divionensis, Beaune Area (Jurassic of France)

Where: France (47.0° N, 4.8° E: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 14.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Marnes à Digonella divionensis Formation, Early/Lower Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• Macrocephalus zone

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified marl

• 2-3 m

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. Cariou, S. Elmi, C. Mangold, J. Thierry, and H. Tintant. 1971. La succession des faunes dans le Callovien Francais, essais de corrélation à l'échelle de la zone. Mémoires du B.R.G.M. 75:665-692 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 60550: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 17.05.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
Digonella divionensis
Digonella divionensis Deslongchamps 1880
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Macrocephalitidae
Dolikephalites typicus, Dolikephalites subcompressus, Macrocephalites compressus, Macrocephalites macrocephalus, Kamptokephalites sp.
Macrocephalites macrocephalus Schlotheim 1813 ammonite