D-117 road between Catufet and Manau [Formation de Saint Cirac] (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (42.9° N, 1.8° W: paleocoordinates 33.2° N, 0.7° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hoplitoplacenticeras marroti ammonoid zone, Saint Cirac Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: AGE: Late Campanian, on the basis of ammonite and nannofossil biostratigraphy; Hoplitoplacenticeras marroti biozone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position with formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified marl

• ENVIRONMENT: No detailed environmental data reported in text.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Blue marl. LITHIFICATION: Lithified on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: Some or all of the authors. REPOSITORY: Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse.

Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy, M. Hansotte, M. Bilotte and J. Burnett. 1992. Ammonites and nannofossils from the Campanian of Nalzen (Ariége, France). Geobios 25(2):263-278 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 82291: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.07.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to cephalopods and foraminifera. Other faunal groups not discussed. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and identifications to species-level.
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Scaphites (Scaphites) haugi de Grossouvre 1894 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Diplomoceratidae
Glyptoxoceras aquisgranense Schlüter 1872 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites sp. Lamarck 1799 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
Eupachydiscus cf. isculensis Redtenbacher 1873 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Desmophyllites diphylloides Forbes 1846 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Placenticeratidae