Rottier, section Gc, Gc8, Drôme, Rhône-Alpes (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (44.5° N, 5.4° E: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 14.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)

• Nodosoplicatum zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lime mudstone

• 1.5-2 m

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J.-P. Thieuloy. 1972. Biostratigraphie des lentilles à pérégrinelles (brachiopodes) de l'Hauterivien de Rottier (Drôme, France) [Biostratigraphy of the Hauterivian Peregrinella beds (brachiopods) from Rottier (Drôme, France)]. Géobios 5(1):5-53 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61553: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.06.2006

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Abrytusites "n. sp. A" Nikolov and Brekoviski 1969 ammonite
Abrytusites julianyi Honnorat-Bastide 1890 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Crioceratitidae
 Ammonitida - Holcodiscidae
Spitidiscus fasciger n. sp. Thieuloy 1972 ammonite
Spitidiscus rotula Sowerby 1827 ammonite
subspecies inflatus
 Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phyllopachyceras winkleri Uhlig 1882 ammonite
subspecies winkleri