Level II.7, Michalskii horizon, Saint-Vincent-sur-Jard, Vendée: Early/Lower Callovian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
Chanasia michalskii
spelled with current rank as Hecticoceras (Chanasia)
Chanasia cf. chanasiense
spelled with current rank as Hecticoceras (Chanasia)
Chanasia bonyi
spelled with current rank as Hecticoceras (Chanasia)
Chanasia buckmani
spelled with current rank as Hecticoceras (Chanasia)
Chanasia chartroni
spelled with current rank as Hecticoceras (Chanasia)
Chanasia gevreyi
spelled with current rank as Hecticoceras (Chanasia)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Indosphinctes zelleri
Indosphinctes caroli
Elatmites aff. curvicosta (Oppel 1857)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Macrocephalitidae
Pleurocephalites cf. folliformis
Dolikephalites gracilis
see common names

Geography
Country:France County:Vendée
Coordinates: 46.4° North, 1.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.5° North, 9.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:0 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Callovian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Early/Lower Callovian
Age range of interval:165.30000 - 161.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local bed:7
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Gracilis zone, Michalskii sub-zone, 0.05 m
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:offshore
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Articulated whole bodies:many
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:60428
Authorizer:L. Villier Enterer:L. Villier
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-05-15 05:31:46 Last modified:2006-05-15 08:31:47
Access level:the public Released:2006-05-15 05:31:46
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

17383.1% 15720E. Cariou. 1974. La série callovienne du Nord-Ouest du bassin d'Aquitaine. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Serie D: Sciences Naturelles 279(4):307-310 [L. Villier/L. Villier]