Saujon: Middle Coniacian - Late Coniacian, France
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Pachydiscidae
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Geography
| Country: | France |
| Coordinates: | 45.7° North, 0.9° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 38.0° North, 11.8° East (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Coniacian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 |
| Key time interval: | Middle Coniacian - Late Coniacian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 89.8 - 85.7 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal,white lithified grainstone |
| Lithology description: "White biosparite" | |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | MNHN |
Metadata
| Database number: | 178944 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-05-22 10:46:34 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-05-22 10:46:34 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 59212. | W. J. Kennedy. 1984. Systematic palaeontology and stratigraphic distribution of the ammonite faunas of the French Coniacian. Special Papers in Palaeontology 31:1-160 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |