Locality 2, northeast of Ceyreste: Middle Coniacian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae
Forresteria (Forresteria) alluaudi (Boule et al. 1907)
Neokanabiceras aff. madagascariense in Collignon et al., 1979
see common names

Geography
Country:France
Coordinates: 43.2° North, 5.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.2° North, 6.6° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Coniacian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Middle Coniacian Ammonoid zone: Peroniceras tridorsatum
Age range of interval:89.80000 - 86.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Marnes de Ceyreste
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic,blue lithified marl
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Laboratoire de Géologie Historique et de Paléontologie, Marseille
Metadata
Database number:178954
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2016-05-22 14:23:07 Last modified:2016-05-22 14:23:07
Access level:the public Released:2016-05-22 14:23:07
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

59212. W. J. Kennedy. 1984. Systematic palaeontology and stratigraphic distribution of the ammonite faunas of the French Coniacian. Special Papers in Palaeontology 31:1-160 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]