Rottier, section Ga, Ga2, Drôme, Rhône-Alpes (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (44.5° N, 5.4° E: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 14.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)

• Loryi zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

• 0,70 m; pale pink limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J.-P. Thieuloy. 1972. Biostratigraphie des lentilles à pérégrinelles (brachiopodes) de l'Hauterivien de Rottier (Drôme, France) [Biostratigraphy of the Hauterivian Peregrinella beds (brachiopods) from Rottier (Drôme, France)]. Géobios 5(1):5-53 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61543: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.06.2006

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) sp. Salfeld 1924 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Haploceratidae
Neolissoceras grasianum d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Crioceratitidae
Crioceratites (Crioceratites) sp. Leveillé 1837 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Oosterellidae
Oosterella cultrata d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae