marine invertebrates from the late Albian to early Cenomanian from Mount Risou: Early/Lower Albian - Middle Albian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Calihoplites ssp.
Anagaudyceras sacya
Reptilia - Ophthalmosauridae
Sisteronia seeleyi Fischer et al. 2014
Fischer et al. 2014 3 specimens
At least three additional articulated specimens are present in the private collection of L. Ebbo (precise locality data unknown)
Platypterygius sp. von Huene 1922
Fischer et al. 2014
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Hamitidae
Hemiptychoceras subgaultinum
Hamites duplicostatus
Hamites renzi n. sp.
Hamites subvirgulatus (Spath 1941)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
Mariella (Mariella) bergeri (Brongniart 1822)
Mariella (Mariella) cf. miliaris (Pictet and Campiche 1861)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Anisoceratidae
Anisoceras pararmatum
Anisoceras elegantulus
Anisoceras pseudoelegans Pictet and Campiche 1861
Anisoceras armatum (Sowerby 1817)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Lechites (lechites) gaudini (Pictet and Campiche 1861)
recombined as Lechites (Lechites) gaudini
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Scaphites (Scaphites) clavigera
Scaphites (Scaphites) bassei
Scaphites (Scaphites) hugardianus (d'Orbigny 1842)
Scaphites (Scaphites) meriani Pictet and Campiche 1861
Scaphites (Scaphites) meriani Pictet and Campiche 1861
Worthoceras pygmaeum Bujtor 1991
Yezoites subevolutus (Böse 1928)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Desmoceras (Desmoceras) latidorsatum (Michelin 1838)
Puzosia (Puzosia) mayoriana (d'Orbigny 1841)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Hoplitidae
Arrhaphoceras (Praeschloenbachia) briacensis
Discohoplites valbonnensis valbonnensis
Discohoplites coelonotus (Seeley 1865)
Discohoplites subfalcatus (Semenov 1899)
Hyphoplites campichei pseudofalcatus
Hyphoplites campichei Spath 1925
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Lyelliceratidae
Stoliczkaia (Stoliczkaia) clavigera (Neumayr 1875)
Stoliczkaia (Stoliczkaia) dispar (d'Orbigny 1841)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae
Mortoniceras (Durnovarites) subquadratum Spath 1933
Mortoniceras (Durnovarites) perinflatum (Spath 1922)
recombined as Mortoniceras (Subschloenbachia) perinflatum
Cantabrigites cantabrigense (Spath 1933)
original and current combination Mortoniceras (Cantabrigites) cantabrigense
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
Zelandites dozai dozai
Gaudryceras (Gaudryceras) cf. cassisianum (d'Orbigny 1850)
Tetragonites rectanguiaris
Kossmatella (Kosmatella) muhlenbecki (Fallot 1885)
Cephalopoda - Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) seresitense (Pervinquière 1907)
recombined as Phylloceras seresitense
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Buchiidae
Aucellina gryphaeoides (Sowerby 1836)
see common names

Geography
Country:France
Coordinates: 44.3° North, 5.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.0° North, 10.5° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:basin
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Albian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 4
*Period:Late/Upper Cretaceous
*International age/stage:Early/Lower Albian - Middle Albian
Key time interval:Early/Lower Albian - Middle Albian Zone: Stoliczkaia dispar
Age range of interval:113.00000 - 106.20000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Marnes bleues
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "carbonate"
Secondary lithology: lithified marl
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,cast,replaced with calcite,replaced with pyrite
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:13499
Authorizer:F. Fursich, P. Mannion Enterer:D. Hempfling, J. Tennant
Modifier:D. Hempfling Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-04-09 00:56:49 Last modified:2002-04-09 04:55:54
Access level:database members Released:2002-04-09 00:56:49
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

6115. A. S. Gale, W. J. Kennedy, J.A. Burnett, M. Caron, and B.E. Kidd. 1996. The late Albian to Early Cenomanian succession at Mount Risou near Rosans (Drôme, SE France): an integrated study (ammonites, inoceramids, planktonic foraminifera, nannofossils, oxygen and carbon isotopes). Cretaceous Research 17:515-606 [F. Fursich/D. Hempfling/D. Hempfling]

Secondary references:

49911 V. Fischer, N. Bardet, M. Guiomar and P. Godefroit. 2014. High diversity in Cretaceous ichthyosaurs from Europe prior to their extinction. PLoS ONE 9(1):e84709 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]