Calcaires d'Aujon, Aujon, Massif de Platé, Haute-Savoie (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (47.0° N, 6.7° E: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 16.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bostan Member (Grès verts helvétiques Formation), Early/Lower Aptian (125.5 - 122.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified packstone

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 56530: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 21.11.2005

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Taxonomic list

Calcarea
 Calcaronea - Sphaerocoeliidae
Barroisia cf. helvetica calcareous sponge
Barroisia anastomans calcareous sponge
 Calcaronea - Stellispongiidae
Elasmostoma cf. normanianum calcareous sponge
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
? Cyclothyris sp. M'Coy 1844
 Terebratulida - Sellithyrididae
Tropeothyris islarensis Middlemiss 1984
Stenolaemata
 Cyclostomata - Plagioeciidae
 Cyclostomata - Diastoporidae
 Cyclostomata - Eleidae
 Cyclostomata - Lichenoporidae
 Cyclostomata - Cavidae
 Cyclostomata - Cytididae
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
? Epicyprina sp. Casey 1952 clam
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Douvilleiceratidae
Cheloniceras ? sp. Hyatt 1903 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Acanthohoplitidae
Colombiceras cf. caucasicum Luppov 1949 ammonite
 Belemnitida -