Le Chouet, bed 91: Early Berriasian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae
Proniceras pronum (Oppel 1868)
Frau et al. 2016
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
Pseudoneocomites retowskyi (Sarasin and Schönderlmayer 1893)
Elenaella cularense (Mazenot 1939)
Frau et al. 2016
Berriasella sp. Uhlig 1905
Berriasella subcallisto
    = Berriasella ex gr. oppeli Kilian 1889
Frau et al. 2016
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Himalayitidae
Mazenoticeras tarini (Kilian 1889)
Praedalmasiceras spiticeroides (Djanélidzé 1922)
Frau et al. 2016
(1 measurement)
see common names

Geography
Country:France
Coordinates: 44.5° North, 5.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.6° North, 14.6° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Berriasian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 1
Key time interval: Early Berriasian Ammonoid zone:  Berriasella jacobi
Age range of interval: 145 - 142.7 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:174787
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-11-27 18:16:06 Last modified:2015-11-27 18:16:06
Access level:the public Released:2015-11-27 18:16:06
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]