Le Chouet, bed 78: Late Tithonian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae
Proniceras sp.
    = Proniceras pronum Oppel 1868
Frau et al. 2016
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Ataxioceratidae
Paraulacosphinctes senoides Tavera 1985
Moravisphinctes fischeri (Kilian 1889)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
? Pseudargentiniceras sp.
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:  Micracanthoceras microcanthum
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:174784
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-11-27 18:05:29 Last modified:2015-11-27 18:05:29
Access level:the public Released:2015-11-27 18:05:29
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

Secondary references:

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]