Comte quarry (upper furcata zone) (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (43.2° N, 5.6° E: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 15.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dufrenoyia dufrenoyi ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Aptian (125.5 - 122.5 Ma)

• upper part of the Comte Quarry section

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Conte

• Repository: Musée de Paléontologie de Provence (Aix-Marseille University)

Primary reference: C. Frau, L. G. Bulot, and G. Delanoy. 2017. New and poorly known Aptian Acrioceratidae (Acrioceratidae, Ammonoidea) from Cassis - Roquefort-la-Bédoule (Bouches-du-Rhône, France). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 283:335-346 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 185037: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.04.2017

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acrioceratidae
Toxoceratoides rochi Casey 1961 ammonite