Where: France (46.7° N, 4.9° E: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 14.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Marnes brunes Formation, Middle Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)
• Jason zone, Medea subzone
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, brown marl and lithified, ferruginous, ooidal, red marl
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 60556: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 17.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Indosphinctes sp. Spath 1930 ammonite
"Choffatia sp." = Choffatia Siemiradzki 1898 ammonite
"Grossouvria sp." = Choffatia Siemiradzki 1898 ammonite | |
Reineckeia tyranniformis Spath 1928 ammonite
Reineckeia substeinmanni Lemoine 1911 ammonite
Reineckeites paronai Petitclerc 1915 ammonite | |
Zugokosmoceras medea ammonite
Gulielmiceras gulielmii ammonite | |
Pleurocephalites aff. jacobi ammonite |