La Charce, Peregrinus zone, Drome, Rhone-Alpes: Late Valanginian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Bochianitidae
Bochianites neocomiensis (d'Orbigny 1842)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae
Olcostephanus sp. Neumayr 1875
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Haploceratidae
Neolissoceras grasii
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Oosterellidae
Oosterella sp. Kilian 1911
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
Karakaschiceras sp. Thieuloy 1971
Karakaschiceras pronecostatum (Felix 1891)
Neocomites retowskyi (Sarasin and Schönderlmayer 1893)
Rodighieroites cardulus Company 1987
Neocomites sp. Uhlig 1905
Neocomites teschenensis (Uhlig 1902)
Neocomites neocomiensis (d'Orbigny 1841)
Varlheideites peregrinus Rawson and Kemper 1978
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Lytoceras sp. Suess 1865
Cephalopoda - Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phyllopachyceras sp. Spath 1925
see common names

Geography
Country:France
Coordinates: 44.5° North, 5.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.4° North, 14.6° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Valanginian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 1
Key time interval: Late Valanginian
Age range of interval: 139.8 - 132.6 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local section:La Charce Local bed:114-133
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Verrucosum zone, Peregrinus subzone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified marl
Secondary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: alternation of limestone and marl
Environment:offshore indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:focus on Neocomitids
Metadata
Database number:65899
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-09-26 07:07:10 Last modified:2006-09-26 10:07:10
Access level:the public Released:2006-09-26 07:07:08
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

18899. S. Reboulet, F. Atrops, S. Ferry and A. Schaaf. 1992. Renouvellement des ammonites en fosse Vocontienne a la limite Valanginien-Hauterivien [Ammonite turnover in the Vocontian trough at the Valanginian-Hauterivian boundary]. GĂ©obios 25(4):469-476 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/J. Alroy]