Carrière Les Mollets, Doux (Deux-Sèvres): Middle Oxfordian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula electra
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Aspidoceratidae
Gregoryceras riaziformis
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Cardioceratidae
Cardioceras (Miticardioceras) tenuiserratum (Oppel 1863)
Cardioceras (Maltoniceras) schellwieni (Boden 1911)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Perisphinctes (Arisphinctes) plicatilis (Sowerby 1817)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
Neochetoceras pamprouxense
Creniceras lophotum (Oppel 1863)
Taramelliceras (Proscaphites) anar (Oppel 1863)
Taramelliceras (Taramelliceras) sarasini (de Loriol 1902)
Taramelliceras (Taramelliceras) sebastiani Quéreilhac 2009
Quéreilhac 2009
Taramelliceras (Taramelliceras) marchandi Quéreilhac 2009
Neoprionoceras henrici (d'Orbigny 1850)
see common names

Geography
Country:France County:Doux
Coordinates: 46.7° North, 0.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.4° North, 10.0° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:116
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Oxfordian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 5
Key time interval: Middle Oxfordian Ammonoid zone:  Antecedens
Age range of interval: 161.5 - 154.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Theoi Marls
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:concretionary lithified calcareous "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:offshore indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original aragonite,replaced with calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:163587
Authorizer:D. Gendry Enterer:D. Gendry
Created:2014-11-06 04:30:45 Last modified:2014-11-06 04:30:45
Access level:the public Released:2014-11-06 04:30:45
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

53371. P. Quereilhac and Y. Guinot. 2011. Les "Marnes à theoi" de Pamproux (Deux-Sèvres, France), Sous-Zone à Antecedens (Oxfordien moyen, Zone à Plicatilis): diversité des faunes et découverte de nouvelles espèces d'ammonites [The "Theoi Marls" of Pamproux (Deux-Sèvres department, France), Antecedens Sub-zone (Middle Oxfordian, Plicatilis Zone): faunal diversity and discovery of new ammonite species]. Carnets de géologie (Notebook on Geology) CG2011_M01:31-61 [D. Gendry/D. Gendry/D. Gendry]

Secondary references:

53893 P. Quéreilhac. 2009. La sous-famille des Taramelliceratinae (Ammonitina, Haploceratoidea, Oppeliidae) de l'Oxfordien Moyen et Supérieur (Zone à Plicatilis, Sous-zone à Berrense) du Nord de la Vienne, France (Province subméditerranéenne). Carnets de Géologie (Notebook on Geology) [D. Gendry/D. Gendry/D. Gendry]