Barmerousse horizon, Sautet, 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

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

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

• 20 cm

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, fine-grained, glauconitic, phosphatic 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 58526: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 12.02.2006

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Taxonomic list

Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
? Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell