Ammonoids, Athelta zone, Poitou: Late/Upper Callovian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Reineckeiidae
Collotites angustilobatum
Collotia sp.
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Kosmoceratidae
Kosmoceras proniae
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Aspidoceratidae
Rursiceras reversum (Leckenby 1859)
Peltoceras retrospinatum
Peltoceras athleta (Phillips 1829)
recombined as Peltoceras (Peltoceras) athleta
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
Distichoceras sp.
Hecticoceras bicostatum
see common names

Geography
Country:France
Coordinates: 46.3° North, 0.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.5° North, 10.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:basin
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
Regional section:Poitou Regional bed:7
Regional order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Athleta zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:offshore
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:60544
Authorizer:L. Villier Enterer:L. Villier
Modifier:L. Villier Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-05-17 06:51:04 Last modified:2006-05-17 10:03:52
Access level:the public Released:2006-05-17 06:51:04
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

17402.1% 16160E. Cariou, S. Elmi, C. Mangold, J. Thierry, and H. Tintant. 1971. La succession des faunes dans le Callovien Francais, essais de corrélation à l'échelle de la zone. Mémoires du B.R.G.M. 75:665-692 [L. Villier/L. Villier]