Bed B43, Podestat–Pouli (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (43.2° N, 5.3° E: paleocoordinates 33.6° N, 15.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Martelites sarasini ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• Martelites sarasini subzone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified wackestone

• Finely laminated grey micritic limestone beds, and chalky pinkish interbeds

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected in 2010

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

Primary reference: C. Frau, G. Delanoy, J. P. Masse, C. Lanteaume, and A. J. B. Tendil. 2016. New Heteroceratidae (Ammonoidea) from the late Barremian deepening succession of Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône, France). Acta Geologica Polonica 66:205-225 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180144: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.07.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Leptoceratoididae
Anglesites puzosianum d'Orbigny 1842 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Heteroceratidae
Calanquites aff. semituberculatus Rouchadzé 1933 ammonite