Where: France (46.3° N, 4.8° E: paleocoordinates 36.8° N, 14.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: banc roux Formation, Early/Lower Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)
• Base of macrocephalus zone
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, hardground, ooidal, brown grainstone
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 60614: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 19.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Macrocephalites macrocephalus Schlotheim 1813 ammonite |