Where: Gard, France (44.0° N, 3.8° E: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 13.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• The Valanginian age of this horizon is attested, among others, by the presence of Neocomites neocomiensis d’Orbigny, 1841 whereas further up in the formation, the presence of Eristavites Nikolov, 1966 indicates the very base of the upper Valanginian (Alabouvette et al., 1988). Thus, the sampled horizon can be considered latest early Valanginian in age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, hardground, shelly/skeletal marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by H. Cappetta

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, acetic, sieve

• Repository: Palaeontology Department, University of Montpellier 2

Primary reference: G. Guinot, H. Cappetta, and S. Adnet. 2014. A rare elasmobranch assemblage from the Valanginian (Lower Cretaceous) of southern France. Cretaceous Research 48:54-84 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 213631: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.09.2020

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