D-117 road between Catufet and Manau [Formation de Saint Cirac]: Late/Upper Campanian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites sp. Lamarck 1799
R category
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Diplomoceratidae
Glyptoxoceras aquisgranense (Schlüter 1872)
C category
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Scaphites (Scaphites) haugi (de Grossouvre 1894)
R category
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
Eupachydiscus cf. isculensis (Redtenbacher 1873)
R category
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Desmophyllites diphylloides (Forbes 1846)
R category
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Placenticeratidae
Hoplitoplacenticeras (Hoplitoplacenticeras) sp. Paulcke 1907
R category
Hoplitoplacenticeras (Hoplitoplacenticeras) marroti (Coquand 1859)
R category
see common names

Geography
Country:France
Coordinates: 42.9° North, 1.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.2° North, 0.7° East
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:Late/Upper Campanian Ammonoid zone: Hoplitoplacenticeras marroti
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Saint Cirac
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: AGE: Late Campanian, on the basis of ammonite and nannofossil biostratigraphy; Hoplitoplacenticeras marroti biozone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position with formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified marl
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Blue marl. LITHIFICATION: Lithified on the basis of figured specimens.
Environment:carbonate indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: No detailed environmental data reported in text.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Some or all of the authors. REPOSITORY: Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Limited to cephalopods and foraminifera. Other faunal groups not discussed. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and identifications to species-level.
Metadata
Database number:82291
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-07-25 16:51:18 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2008-07-25 16:51:18
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

27734. W. J. Kennedy, M. Hansotte, M. Bilotte and J. Burnett. 1992. Ammonites and nannofossils from the Campanian of Nalzen (Ariége, France). Geobios 25(2):263-278 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]