ammonites
Cordebugle, Lisieux (Jurassic of France)

Where: Basse-Normandie, France (49.1° N, 0.4° E: paleocoordinates 39.8° N, 10.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sables de Glos Formation, Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• upper part of formation; upper subzone (Regulare) of the Serratum zone

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coarse channel fill; concretionary, ferruginous, conglomeratic sandstone

• upper Sables de Glos infills a channel cut into the lower Sables de Glos; possibly deltaic channels
• "thick sandy beds" with reworked blocks from layer below (sands, ferruginous nodules, lignite fragments)

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. Milsent, M. Bülow, Université Paris-VI

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), sieve,

Primary reference: E. Buffetaut, M. Bülow, E., J.-J. Jaeger, M. Martin, J.-M. Mazin, C. Milsent and M. Rioult. 1985. Zonation biostratigraphique et nouveaux restes de Vertébrés dans les "Sables de Glos" (Oxfordien supérieur, Normandie) [Biostratigraphic zonation and new vertebrate remains in the "Sables de Glos" (upper Oxfordian, Normandy)]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, Série II 300(18):929-932 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 74916: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 05.09.2007, edited by Richard Butler

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