Le Chouet, bed 83: Late Tithonian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae
Proniceras sp.
Bulot et al. 2014
    = Proniceras pronum Oppel 1868
Frau et al. 2016
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Himalayitidae
Pratumidiscus elsae n. gen., n. sp. Bulot et al. 2014
Bulot et al. 2014
Protacanthodiscus andreaei (Kilian 1889)
Boughdiriella chouetensis n. gen., n. sp. Frau et al. 2015
Dalmasiceras sp.
Bulot et al. 2014
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
Busnardoiceras busnardoi (Le Hegarat 1973)
Bulot et al. 2014
see common names

Geography
Country:France
Coordinates: 44.5° North, 5.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.5° North, 14.8° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Tithonian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 6
Key time interval: Late Tithonian Ammonoid zone:  Protacanthodiscus andreaei
Age range of interval: 146.3 - 145 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified lime mudstone
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Musée Paléontologique de Provence (MPP) of Aix-Marseille University
Metadata
Database number:174769
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-11-27 17:02:27 Last modified:2015-11-27 17:02:27
Access level:the public Released:2015-11-27 17:02:27
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
57138. C. Frau, L. G. Bulot, and W. A. P. Wimbledon. 2015. Upper Tithonian Himalayitidae Spath, 1925 (Perisphinctoidea, Ammonitina) from Le Chouet (Drôme, France): implications for the systematics. Geologica Carpathica 66:117-132 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

57139 L. G. Bulot, C. Frau, and W. A. P. Wimbledon. 2014. New and poorly known Perisphinctoidea (Ammonitina) from the Upper Tithonian of Le Chouet (Drôme, SE France). Volumina Jurassica 12:113-128 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
59800 C. Frau, L. G. Bulot, W. A. P. Wimbledon and C. Ifrim. 2016. Systematic palaeontology of the Perisphinctoidea in the Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary interval at Le Chouet (Drôme, France), and its implications for biostratigraphy. Acta Geologica Polonica 66:175-204 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]