Where: France (43.0° N, 1.5° E: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 3.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Didymoceras stevensoni ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unnamed lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Late Campanian, on the basis of ammonoid biostratigraphy; Didymoceras stevensoni zone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position with 35 thick section.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, micaceous, blue, silty marl and lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Collected by Pouch, Kennedy & Bilotte
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: J.-J. Pouch (mid-1800's), and more recent Kennedy & Bilotte. REPOSITORY: Collége Hean XXIII at Palmiers, Ariége.
Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy and M. Bilotte. 1995. A new ammonite fauna from the sub-Pyrenean Campanian (Upper Cretaceous). Geobios 28(3):359-370 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 82889: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 03.08.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Didymoceras stevensoni Whitfield 1877 ammonite | |
Baculites sp. Lamarck 1799 ammonite | |
Sphenodiscus sp. Meek 1871 ammonite
Sphenodiscus ubaghsi de Groussouvre 1894 ammonite | |
Saghalinites sp. Wright and Matsumoto 1954 ammonite
? Tetragonites cf. obscuratus ammonite | |
Pseudokossmaticeras brandti Redten bacher 1873 ammonite | |
"Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) subrobustus" = Pachydiscus subrobustus
"Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) subrobustus" = Pachydiscus subrobustus Seunes 1892 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Anthozoa | |
Trochocyathus sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
"Cyclolites sp." = Cunnolites
"Cyclolites sp." = Cunnolites Gagnebin 1772 stony coral |