Where: France (46.0° N, 6.7° E: paleocoordinates 34.6° N, 8.6° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Mortoniceras inflatum ammonoid zone, couches de Balme Member (Grès verts helvétiques Formation), Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)
• 25 cm
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, glauconitic, phosphatic, intraclastic conglomerate and poorly lithified, bioturbated, glauconitic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, 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 58527: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 12.02.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Trochocyathus sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Echinoidea | |
Macraster polygonus heart urchin | |
Hemiaster minimus heart urchin | |
Discoides conicus sea urchin
Discoides sp. Parkinson 1811 sea urchin | |
Tetragramma brongniarti sea urchin | |
Hyposalenia studeri sea urchin | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
? Opis sp. Defrance 1824 clam | |
Plicatula sp. Lamarck 1801 scallop | |
? Aucellina sp. Pompeckj 1901 scallop | |
Birostrina sulcata clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Beudanticeras beudanti Brongniart 1822 ammonite | |
"Desmoceras latidorsatum" = Desmoceras (Desmoceras) latidorsatum, "Puzosia mayoriana" = Puzosia (Puzosia) mayoriana
"Desmoceras latidorsatum" = Desmoceras (Desmoceras) latidorsatum Michelin 1838 ammonite
"Puzosia mayoriana" = Puzosia (Puzosia) mayoriana d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite | |
Pleurohoplites renauxianus d'Orbigny 1840 ammonite
Pleurohoplites ex gr. renauxianus d'Orbigny 1840 ammonite
Euhoplites cf. ochetonotus ammonite | |
Kossmatella oosteri ammonite | |
"Stoliczkaia notha" = Stoliczkaia (Stoliczkaia) notha, Neophlycticeras blancheti
"Stoliczkaia notha" = Stoliczkaia (Stoliczkaia) notha Seeley 1865 ammonite
Neophlycticeras blancheti Pictet and Campiche 1859 ammonite | |
Mortoniceras sp., Mortoniceras subquadratum, "Mortoniceras ex gr. perinflatum" = Mortoniceras (Subschloenbachia) perinflatum, "Mortoniceras inflatum" = Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) inflatum, ? Prohysteroceras sp., Cantabrigites sp., Cantabrigites cantabrigense, Hysteroceras cf. binum
Mortoniceras sp. Meek 1876 ammonite
Mortoniceras subquadratum Spath 1933 ammonite
"Mortoniceras ex gr. perinflatum" = Mortoniceras (Subschloenbachia) perinflatum Spath 1922 ammonite
"Mortoniceras inflatum" = Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) inflatum Sowerby 1818 ammonite
? Prohysteroceras sp. Spath 1921 ammonite
Cantabrigites sp. Spath 1933 ammonite
Cantabrigites cantabrigense Spath 1933 ammonite
Hysteroceras cf. binum Sowerby 1815 ammonite | |
"Scaphites hugardianus" = Scaphites (Scaphites) hugardianus
"Scaphites hugardianus" = Scaphites (Scaphites) hugardianus d'Orbigny 1842 ammonite | |
Anisoceras sp. Pictet 1854 ammonite
Anisoceras perarmatum Pictet and Campiche 1861 ammonite
Anisoceras armatum Sowerby 1817 ammonite | |
Hemiptychoceras gaultinum Pictet 1847 ammonite
Hamites sp. Parkinson 1811 ammonite | |
"Lechites gaudini" = Lechites (Lechites) gaudini
"Lechites gaudini" = Lechites (Lechites) gaudini Pictet and Campiche 1861 ammonite | |
Turrilitoides hugardianus d'Orbigny 1842 ammonite | |
Rogerella sp. Saint-Seine 1951 |