VGL 72, Vergol (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (44.2° N, 5.4° E: paleocoordinates 35.2° 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 subzone

• 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 202873: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.07.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
"Sarasinella (Luppovella) superba" = Luppovella (Luppovella) superba
"Sarasinella (Luppovella) superba" = Luppovella (Luppovella) superba Sayn 1907 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Bochianitidae
Bochianites neocomiensis d'Orbigny 1842 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae
Olcostephanus sp. Neumayr 1875 ammonite
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phyllopachyceras beneckei Zittel 1868 ammonite