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When a type locality is listed as the site for a formation with many good outcrops, the site is flagged with a note ([Note 2]). When a particular site of note is listed for an extensive fossil-bearing formation, but that site is somehow atypical, it is also flagged with a note ([Note 3]).
Parapuzosia seppenradensis is the largest known species of ammonite. [1] It lived during the Lower Campanian Epoch of the Late Cretaceous period, in marine environments in what is now Westphalia, Germany. A specimen, found in Seppenrade near Lüdinghausen, Germany in 1895 measures 1.8 m (5.9 ft) in diameter, although the living chamber is ...
The Dalle à ammonites (or Dalle aux ammonites) at Digne-les-Bains (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) is a remarkable natural site consisting of a rock strata bearing a large number of fossilized ammonites. This site is located approximately 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) south of Digne-les-Bains from Barles road.
These ammonites lived in the Jurassic from Sinemurian to Toarcian [2] (age range: 196.5 to 182.0 million years ago). Fossils of this genus can be found in Argentina, Austria, Canada, Chile, China, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Morocco, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey and United States.
Chazy Fossil Reef is a United States National Natural Landmark spanning three Lake Champlain islands in Clinton County, New York and Grand Isle County, Vermont.The site is recognized as the oldest known diverse fossil reef in the world, and contains fossils that demonstrate faunal succession. [1]
Douvilleiceras is a genus of ammonites from the Middle to Late Cretaceous. Its fossils have been found worldwide, in Africa , Asia , Europe , and North and South America . Description
Arietites is a genus of massive, giant evolute, psiloceratacean ammonites in the family Arietitidae in which whorls are subquadrate and transversely ribbed and low keels in triplicate, separated by a pair of longitudinal grooves, run along the venter. Fossils are known world wide from the lower Sinemurian stage of the Lower Jurassic.
The palace may have been built on top of an existing Byzantine structure in this shape. [12] There is a huge water reservoir dug into the ground adjacent to the palace. The Amman Citadel Mosque is an example of early mosques that imitated the Persian -style apadana hall, characterized by a "forest of columns"; these mosques are normally found ...