Route de Vescous, Toudon, Alpes-Maritimes: Early/Lower Coniacian, France
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Collignoniceratidae
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Texanites cf. collignoni
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Forresteria (Harleites) aff. petrocoriensis
(Coquand 1859)
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1 specimen | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | France |
| Coordinates: | 43.9° North, 7.1° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 33.9° North, 7.8° 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: | Early/Lower Coniacian | Ammonoid zone: | Forresteria petrocoriensis |
| Age range of interval: | 89.80000 - 86.30000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "mixed carbonate-siliciclastic" |
| Lithology description: Based on the general description of the Alpes-Maritimes and Alpes-de-Haute-Provence: 'Le Coniacien se lie insensiblement, à sa base, aux calcaires turoniens dont il se distingue néanmoins aisément dans l'ensemble, étant constitué, pour l'essentiel, de bancs de calcaire argilo-crayeux alternant régulièrement avec des lits marneux... Le Santonien, beaucoup plus argileux, est formé d'une puissante série de marnes compactes coupées de lits de calcaire argileux.' | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: coll. Thomel & coll. Alziar | |
| Taxonomic list comments:Focus on ammonites. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 69894 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Aberhan | Enterer: | S. Nurnberg |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-03-09 00:51:43 | Last modified: | 2009-05-26 12:41:10 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-03-09 00:51:43 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 23441. | G. Thomel. 1988. Les ammonites néocrétacées des chaînes subalpines méridionales. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France (153)1-79 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg] |