LCH 85, La Charce (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (44.5° N, 5.5° E: paleocoordinates 35.4° N, 14.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Busnardoites campylotoxus ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• Quadristrangulatum horizon

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Faculté des Sciences, Lyon

Primary reference: S. Reboulet. 1996. L'évolution des ammonites du Valanginien-Hauterivien inférieur du bassin Vocontien et de la plate-form Provençale (sud-est de la France): relations avec la stratigraphie séquentielle et implications biostratigraphiques. Documents des Laboratoires de Géologie Lyon 137:1-371 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 201056: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.04.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Haploceratidae
Neolissoceras salinarium Uhlig 1887 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Lytoceras sp. Suess 1865 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
Busnardoites sp. Nikolov 1966 ammonite
Kilianella roubaudiana d'Orbigny 1850 ammonite
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Salfeldiella (Gyrophyllites) calypso d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite