- Tytuł:
- Upper upper Albian (Mortoniceras rostratum Zone) cephalopods from Clansayes (Drôme, south-eastern France)
- Autorzy:
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Jattiot, Romain
Lehmann, Jens
Latutrie, Benjamin
Tajika, Amane
Vennin, Emmanuelle
Vuarin, Pauline
Brayard, Arnaud
Fara, Emmanuel
Trincal, Vincent - Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/2086664.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2022
- Wydawca:
- Polska Akademia Nauk. Czytelnia Czasopism PAN
- Tematy:
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ammonites
Cretaceous
upper Albian
taxonomy
south-eastern France
shell chirality
amonity
kreda
alb
taksonomia
Francja południowo-wschodnia
chiralność - Opis:
- We document an upper upper Albian (Mortoniceras rostratum Zone) cephalopod assemblage from Clansayes (Drôme, south-eastern France). Although fossils are rare in local exposures and in the single sampled level, a decade of intensive fossil collecting yielded 290 ammonite and 5 nautilid specimens. In total, we describe 1 species of nautilid and 24 species (within 17 genera) of ammonites, including 13 heteromorphs. Only two of these ammonite taxa were previously recorded from the upper upper Albian at Clansayes, which demonstrates the value of this fauna with regard to taxonomy, palaeobiology and palaeobiogeography. Based on morphological and biometric analyses performed on an extensive material (104 specimens), we discriminate two species for the heteromorphic ammonite genus Mariella Nowak, 1916 within the Mortoniceras rostratum Zone. In addition, we investigate shell chirality patterns in Mariella from the late Albian of southern France. Upon comparison of the Clansayes material with older material from the immediately underlying upper Albian Mortoniceras fallax Zone at the neighbouring Salazac locality, we identify an increase in the proportion of sinistral specimens. This observed increase in the frequency of sinistral Mariella specimens may hypothetically be part of a global evolutionary pattern, considering that nearly all documented younger Cenomanian Mariella (and more generally Cenomanian turrilitids) are sinistral.
- Źródło:
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Acta Geologica Polonica; 2022, 72, 2; 187--233
0001-5709 - Pojawia się w:
- Acta Geologica Polonica
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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