Level IV.17top, Nodulosum horizon, Pointe du Grouin, Vendée: Late Callovian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Leptoceratoididae
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Kosmoceratidae
Kosmoceras spinosum (Sowerby 1826)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Aspidoceratidae
see common names

Geography
Country:France County:Vendée
Coordinates: 46.3° North, 1.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.7° North, 18.6° East (Wright 2013)
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 Callovian
Age range of interval: 165.3 - 161.5 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local bed:17b
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Athleta zone, Collotiformis sub-zone, Nodulosum horizon, 2.8 m
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:deformed bedding,yellow 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:60440
Authorizer:L. Villier Enterer:L. Villier
Modifier:L. Villier Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-05-15 06:27:10 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2006-05-15 06:27:10
Creative Commons license:CC0
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]