Where: France (46.1° N, 6.8° E: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 10.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Anahoplites intermedius ammonoid zone, Couches des Verds Member (Grès verts helvétiques Formation), Middle Albian (109.0 - 105.3 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, phosphatic, calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with phosphate
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 56550: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 21.11.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Pleurotomaria sp. Defrance 1826 snail | |
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail | |
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Scaphopoda | |
? Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Cephalopoda | |
Hoplites sp. ammonite
Anahoplites intermedius ammonite two sub-species: A. intermedius intermedius and A. intermedius praecox
Anahoplites planus Mantell 1822 ammonite | |
? Anisoceras arrogans Giebel 1852 ammonite | |
Pseudhelicoceras catenatum ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
? Arca sp. Linnaeus 1758 ark |