ammonites
Sainte Néboule (Eocene of France)

Also known as Ste Neboule, Sainte-Neboule, Ste-Neboule

Where: Quercy, Midi-Pyrenees Region, France (44.6° N, 1.9° E: paleocoordinates 43.1° N, 1.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: La Débruge level zone, Priabonian (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• European Mammal Zone ('Niveau Repère') based on rodents. The karst is located within limestones that are Late Bathonian in age.

Environment/lithology: karst; unlithified, sideritic claystone and phosphorite

• lateritic clay with limonitic pisolithes

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: B. Geze. 1978. La poche a Phosphate de Ste-Neboule (Lot) et sa faune de vertebres du Ludien Superieur. 1. La poche et son remplissage. Paleovertebrata 8(2-4):171-173 [E. Fara/E. Fara/J. Alroy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 12842: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 20.12.2001