La Tour Blanche: Early Coniacian, France
collected by Toucas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Collignoniceratidae
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Forresteria (Harleites) petrocoriensis
(Coquand 1859)
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Geography
| Country: | France |
| Coordinates: | 45.4° North, 0.4° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.6° North, 13.0° 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: | Early Coniacian | Ammonoid zone: | Forresteria petrocoriensis |
| Age range of interval: | 89.8 - 85.7 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Assize K | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collectors: | Toucas |
| Collection method comments: Repository: Sorbonne Collection (at Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris at the time of Kennedy's study) | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 178966 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-05-22 23:33:49 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-05-22 23:33:49 |
| 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] |