Carrières de la Ribochère, Couture (Le Mesle collection): Coniacian, France
collected by Le Mesle

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Scaphites meslei de Grossouvre 1894
Scaphites lamberti n. sp. de Grossouvre 1894
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
Sonneratia janeti n. sp. de Grossouvre 1894
(1 measurement)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae
see common names

Geography
Country:France
Coordinates: 47.7° North, 0.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.0° North, 13.4° 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: Coniacian
Age range of interval: 89.8 - 85.7 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Craie de Villedieu
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: From the "Calcaires durs de la partie inférieure de la Craie de Villedieu" (hard limestone from the lower part of the Villedieu chalk).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal lithified grainstone
Lithology description: "Well-cemented 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
Collectors:Le Mesle
Metadata
Database number:178946
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2016-05-22 10:54:38 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2016-05-22 10:54:38
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]