ODP Leg 207, Hole 1257A, Unit 30X: Late/Upper Albian, North Atlantic

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae
Prohysteroceras sp. Spath 1921
see common names

Geography
Country:North Atlantic
Coordinates: 9.5° North, 54.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:2.4° North, 28.0° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Albian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 4
Key time interval:Late/Upper Albian
Age range of interval:106.20000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: unit 30X-7 between 45 and 47 cm, Hysteroceras varicosum zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified siltstone
Lithology description: clayey carbonate siltstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:core,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:74357
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-08-03 07:04:30 Last modified:2020-05-03 00:11:19
Access level:the public Released:2007-08-03 07:04:30
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

24966. H. G. Owen and J. Mutterlose. 2006. Late Albian ammonites from offshore Suriname: implications for biostratigraphy and palaeobiogeography. Cretaceous Research 27:717-727 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]