Barmerousse horizon, Lindards, Massif de Platé, Haute-Savoie (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (46.0° N, 6.7° E: paleocoordinates 34.6° N, 10.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Couches des Verds Member (Grès verts helvétiques Formation), Middle Albian (109.0 - 105.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, phosphatic, conglomeratic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Delamette, J. Charollais, D. Decrouez and M. Caron. 1997. Les grès verts helvétiques (Aptien moyen-Albien supérieur) de Haute-Savoie, Valais et Vaud (Alpes occidentales franco-suisses). Publications du Département de Géologie et Paléontologie. Section des Sciences de la Terre 23:1-400 [L. Villier/L. Villier/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 56529: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 21.11.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
? Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 oyster
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Birostrina sp. De Luc and Sowerby 1821 clam
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Anisoceratidae
 Ammonitida - Douvilleiceratidae
Douvilleiceras sp. Grossouvre 1894 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Hoplitidae
Hoplites sp. ammonite
 Ammonitida - Lyelliceratidae
Lyelliceras huberianum ammonite
Lyelliceras huberianum pseudolyelli
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
"Desmoceras latidorsatum" = Desmoceras (Desmoceras) latidorsatum
"Desmoceras latidorsatum" = Desmoceras (Desmoceras) latidorsatum Michelin 1838 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Ringiculidae