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 jaunes Formation, Middle Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)
• Coronatum zone
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, white wackestone and poorly lithified mudstone
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 60564: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 17.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Erymnoceras sp. Hyatt 1900 ammonite
Rollierites sp. Jeannet 1951 ammonite | |
Reineckeia sp. ammonite
Reineckeites sp. ammonite | |
Zugokosmoceras obductum Buckman 1925 ammonite
Spinikosmoceras castor ammonite
Spinikosmoceras pollux ammonite | |
Subgrossouvria sp. ammonite | |
Brightia metomphala Bonarelli 1893 ammonite
Lunuloceras sp. ammonite |