Chemin de la Jouane, horizon K3S (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (42.9° N, 2.4° E: paleocoordinates 31.6° N, 4.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Placenticeras polyopsis ammonoid zone, Middle Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• Gallicus subzone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Patrice Melchior

• Repository: UPS Toulouse

Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy, M. Bilotte, and P. Melchior. 1995. Ammonite faunas, biostratigraphy, and sequence stratigraphy of the Coniacian-Santonian of the Corbières (NE Pyrénées). Bulletin des Centres de Recherches Elf Exploration-Production Elf-Aquitaine 19:377-499 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179665: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.06.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites sp. Lamarck 1799 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
Eupachydiscus isculensis Redtenbacher 1873 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Hauericeras (Gardeniceras) welschi de Grossouvre 1894 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae
Texanites (Texanites) soutoni Baily 1855 ammonite
Texanites (Texanites) quinquenodosus Redtenbacher 1837 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Vascoceratidae
Hemitissotia randoi Gerth 1961 ammonite
Hemitissotia cf. randoi Gerth 1961 ammonite