Calcaires de Balme, Lindards, Massif de Platé, Haute-Savoie (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (46.0° N, 6.7° E: paleocoordinates 34.6° N, 8.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Grès verts helvétiques Formation, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, condensed, glauconitic, phosphatic mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

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 56543: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 21.11.2005

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Odontaspidida - Isuridae
Isuridae indet. Gray 1851 mackerel shark
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Cephalopoda
 Nautiloidea -
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid
 Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae
Hysteroceras sp. Hyatt 1900 ammonite
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
 Ichnofossils -
Thalassinoides sp. Ehrenberg 1944