ammonites
Neuvelle-les-Champlitte (Jurassic of France)

Also known as Reef 4020

Where: Franche-Comte, France (47.6° N, 5.6° E: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 14.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• Argovian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• Donacosmilia bioherm (2 m thick and 10 m in diameter), 3 smaller bioherms (30-60 cm thick and 1-2 m in diameter) and flanking marly limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Beauvais. 1964. Etude stratigraphique et paleontologique des formations a madreporaires du Jurassique superieur du Jura et de l'est du Basin de Paris. Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France 100:1-288 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87801: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.03.2009