ammonites
Martignas-sur-Jalle (Miocene of France)

Where: Aquitaine, France (44.8° N, 0.8° W: paleocoordinates 45.0° N, 2.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Serravallian (13.7 - 11.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified marl

• limestone and sandy-calcareous marls, rich in bryozoans

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. Chaix and B. Cahuzac. 2005. Le genre Culicia (Scleractiniaire): systematique, ecologie et biogeographie au Cenozoique [The genus Culicia (Scleractinia): systematics, ecology and biogeography in the Cenozoic]. Eclogae Geologica Helvetiae 98:169-187 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 88798: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.04.2009