Level IV.15, Trezeense horizon, Velluire, Vendée: Late/Upper Callovian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Zieteniceras cf. demolyi
Okaites sp.
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Aspidoceratidae
Peltoceras sp.
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Alligaticeras sp.
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Leptoceratoididae
Orbignyiceras trezeense
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
Richeiceras sp. Jeannet 1951
Horioceras baugieri
Distichoceras sp.
see common names

Geography
Country:France County:Vendée
Coordinates: 46.4° North, 0.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.5° North, 9.7° 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:Late/Upper Callovian
Age range of interval:164.70000 - 161.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local bed:15
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Athleta zone, Trezeense sub-zone, 10 m
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:blue lithified marl
Secondary lithology: lithified wackestone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:offshore
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,replaced with pyrite
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:60437
Authorizer:L. Villier Enterer:L. Villier
Modifier:L. Villier Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-05-15 06:11:28 Last modified:2006-05-15 09:55:28
Access level:the public Released:2006-05-15 06:11:28
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]