Uppermost Cenomanian ammonites from Eure, Haute-Normandie, northwest France
Authors
William James Kennedy
Geological Collections, University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PW
Pierre Juignet
Département de Géologie, Université, 14032 Caen Cedex
J. Girard
Rue du 8 mai 1945, 76530 Grand-Couronne
Keywords:
Ammonites, Cenomanian, Turonian, Cretaceous, France
Abstract
Temporary exposures of chalks spanning the Cenomanian – Turonian boundary to the east of Brionne, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France, yielded well-preserved ammonite faunas. The Metoicoceras geslinianum Zone assemblage is: Pseudocalycoceras angolaense (SPATH, 1931), Sumitomoceras cautisalbae (WRIGHT & KENNEDY, 1981), Calycoceras (Calycoceras) sp. juv., Eucalycoceras pentagonum (JUKES-BROWNE, 1896), Euomphaloceras septemseriatum (CRAGIN, 1893), Metoicoceras geslinianum (D’ORBIGNY, 1850), Hamites cimarronensis (KAUFFMAN & POWELL, 1977), Allocrioceras annulatum (SHUMARD, 1860), and Sciponoceras gracile (SHUMARD, 1860). The succeeding Neocardioceras juddii Zone assemblage is: Thomelites serotinus WRIGHT & KENNEDY, 1981, Neocardioceras juddii juddii (BARROIS & GUERNE, 1878), Neocardioceras juddii barroisi WRIGHT & KENNEDY, 1981, and Thomasites gongilensis (WOODS, 1911). Imprecisely localised are Pachydesmoceras sp., and Nigericeras aff. scotti COBBAN, 1972. The majority of the species are new for northern France, and confirm the northwards extension of typically Tethyan taxa (Thomasites, Nigericeras) into the Boreal region during the uppermost Cenomanian, and previously recognized in southern England, as well as the occurrence of cosmopolitan acanthoceratids well-known at this level in the United States (Pseudocalycoceras, Sumitomoceras).
