La Charce, Peregrinus zone, Drome, Rhone-Alpes (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: Late/Upper Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• Verrucosum zone, Peregrinus subzone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified marl and lithified limestone

• alternation of limestone and marl

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Reboulet, F. Atrops, S. Ferry and A. Schaaf. 1992. Renouvellement des ammonites en fosse Vocontienne a la limite Valanginien-Hauterivien [Ammonite turnover in the Vocontian trough at the Valanginian-Hauterivian boundary]. Géobios 25(4):469-476 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 65899: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.09.2006

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Taxonomic list

• focus on Neocomitids
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Bochianitidae
Bochianites neocomiensis
Bochianites neocomiensis d'Orbigny 1842 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Oosterellidae
Oosterella sp.
Oosterella sp. Kilian 1911 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Lytoceras sp.
Lytoceras sp. Suess 1865 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
Karakaschiceras sp., Karakaschiceras pronecostatum, Neocomites sp., "Varlheideites peregrinus" = Neocomites (Varlheideites) peregrinus, Neocomites neocomiensis, "Neocomites teschenensis" = Neocomites (Eristavites) teschenensis, Rodighieroites cardulus, "Neocomites retowskyi" = Pseudoneocomites retowskyi
Karakaschiceras sp. Thieuloy 1971 ammonite
Karakaschiceras pronecostatum Felix 1891 ammonite
Neocomites sp. Uhlig 1905 ammonite
"Varlheideites peregrinus" = Neocomites (Varlheideites) peregrinus Rawson and Kemper 1978 ammonite
Neocomites neocomiensis d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
"Neocomites teschenensis" = Neocomites (Eristavites) teschenensis Uhlig 1902 ammonite
Rodighieroites cardulus Company 1987 ammonite
"Neocomites retowskyi" = Pseudoneocomites retowskyi Sarasin and Schönderlmayer 1893 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae
Olcostephanus sp.
Olcostephanus sp. Neumayr 1875 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Haploceratidae
Neolissoceras grasii
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phyllopachyceras sp.
Phyllopachyceras sp. Spath 1925 ammonite