Camp Cesar, N of Laudun, Unit 6 of Sornay (1950) (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (44.1° N, 4.7° E: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 5.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mammites nodosoides ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unnamed lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Early Turonian, on the basis of ammonoid biostratigraphy; Mammite nodosoides zone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unit 4 of Faraud (1934), a 20m thick section.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, gray, yellow, calcareous sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine siliciclastic setting.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Grey or grey yellow calcareous marly sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens and taphonomic description.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collected by Kennedy & Hancock in 1980; reposited in the OUM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: W. J. Kennedy and J. M. Hancock, 1980. REPOSITORY: Oxford University Museum (OUM).

Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy. 1994. Lower Turonian ammonites from Gard (France). Palaeopelagos Special Publication 1:255-275 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 82853: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 02.08.2008

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for ammonoidea, and not listing other taxa; biostratigraphy remanie are not included in list. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identification.
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Spathites (Jeanrogericeras) sp., Mammites nodosoides
Spathites (Jeanrogericeras) sp. Wiedmann 1960 ammonite
Mammites nodosoides Schlüter 1871 ammonite