ammonites
Sauclieres level I (Jurassic of France)

Where: Region Midi-Pyrenees, France (44.0° N, 3.4° E: paleocoordinates 32.0° N, 8.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hettangian (201.6 - 196.5 Ma)

• The facies of this collection corresponds to the 'dolomie cubique de l'Hettangien des Causses'

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, cherty/siliceous dolomite

• a bumpy/lumpy dolomite bed overlain by a dolomite bed with cherty nodules

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Primary reference: G. R. Demathieu and J. Sciau. 1992. Des pistes de dinosaures et de crocodiliens dans les dolomies de l'Hettangien du Causse du Larzac. Comptes-Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Paris 315:1561-1566 [E. Fara/E. Fara/J. Alroy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31306: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 06.05.2003