Ammonoids, Marnes grumeleuses, southern Tournus Area (Jurassic of France)

Where: France (46.6° N, 4.9° E: paleocoordinates 37.0° N, 14.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Marnes grumeleuses Formation, Early/Lower Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• Koenigi zone

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, yellow marl and poorly lithified, blue claystone

• 2-4 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 60565: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 17.05.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Kosmoceratidae
Toricellites lahuseni
 Ammonitida - Reineckeiidae
Reineckeites revili
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Proplanulites majesticus, Proplanulites teisseyrei, Indosphinctes pseudopatina, Indosphinctes urbanus, Choffatia euryptycha
Indosphinctes pseudopatina Parona and Bonarelli 1897 ammonite
Indosphinctes urbanus Spath 1931 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Macrocephalitidae
Macrocephalites compressus, Macrocephalites rotundus, Macrocephalites macrocephalus, Kamptokephalites aff. herveyi, Dolikephalites dolius, Dolikephalites typicus, Dolikephalites gracilis, Dolikephalites subcompressus
Macrocephalites macrocephalus Schlotheim 1813 ammonite