ammonites
Tunnel de la Nerthe, Fuveau (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France (43.4° N, 5.3° E: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 3.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 65.5 Ma)

• Early Rognacian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; marl

• "lacustrian marls"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by P. Matheron in 1846; reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: P. Matheron. 1869. Note sur les reptiles fossiles des dépôts fulvio-lacustres crétaces du bassin à lignite de Fuveau [Note on the fossil reptiles from the fluvio-lacustrine deposits of the Fuveau lignite basin]. Bulletin de la Société géologique de France, série 2 26:781-795 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55387: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 13.10.2005, edited by Matt Carrano

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