Level IV.17top, Nodulosum horizon, Pointe du Grouin, Vendée (Jurassic of France)

Where: France (46.3° N, 1.5° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 29.7° N, 18.6° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• Athleta zone, Collotiformis sub-zone, Nodulosum horizon, 2.8 m

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, yellow limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: E. Cariou. 1974. La série callovienne du Nord-Ouest du bassin d'Aquitaine. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Serie D: Sciences Naturelles 279(4):307-310 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 60440: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 15.05.2006

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
 Ammonitida - Leptoceratoididae
 Ammonitida - Aspidoceratidae
 Ammonitida - Kosmoceratidae
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Subgrossouvria morleydaviesi Spath 1931 ammonite
Orionoides anguinus Spath 1931 ammonite
"Grossouvria sulcifera" = Choffatia ammonite