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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Isuridae indet. Gray 1851 mackerel shark | |
Bivalvia | |
Birostrina sulcata clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid | |
Hysteroceras sp. Hyatt 1900 ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Thalassinoides sp. Ehrenberg 1944 |