Where: Rhône-Alpes, France (44.3° N, 5.6° E: paleocoordinates 35.3° N, 14.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Neocomites peregrinus ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray, yellow marl
Size class: macrofossils
• "the anterior part of a well-preserved snout, with 124 associated teeth or tooth fragments"
Collected by A. Clément
Primary reference: V. Fischer, A. Clement, M. Guiomar and P. Godefroit. 2011. The first definite record of a Valanginian ichthyosaur and its implications on the evolution of post-Liassic Ichthyosauria. Cretaceous Research 32:155-163 [M. Carrano/H. Street]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 104753: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 09.02.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Reptilia | |
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Cephalopoda | |
Bochianites neocomiensis d'Orbigny 1842 ammonite | |
Neocomites neocomiensis d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite | |
"Olcostephanus nicklesi" = Olcostephanus (Olcostephanus) nicklesi, Olcostephanus densicostatus
"Olcostephanus nicklesi" = Olcostephanus (Olcostephanus) nicklesi Wiedmann and Dieni 1968 ammonite
Olcostephanus densicostatus Wegner 1909 ammonite | |
Himantoceras acuticostatum Thieuloy 1965 ammonite | |
Neolissoceras grasianum d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite | |
Phyllopachyceras sp. Spath 1925 ammonite | |
Hibolithes subfusiformis Raspail 1829 belemnite | |
Pseudobelus brevis belemnite
Duvalia binervia Raspail 1829 belemnite |