Le Chouet, bed 95: Early Berriasian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Himalayitidae
Praedalmasiceras progenitor (Oppel 1868)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae
Proniceras pronum (Oppel 1868)
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:180140
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2016-07-09 13:52:34 Last modified:2016-07-09 13:52:34
Access level:the public Released:2016-07-09 13:52:34
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]