Couches des Verds, Lindards, Massif de Platé, Haute-Savoie (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (46.0° N, 6.7° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 41.2° N, 27.1° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Couches des Verds Member (Grès verts helvétiques Formation), Middle Albian (110.1 - 106.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, fine-grained, pyritic 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 56544: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 21.11.2005

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthohoplitidae
Hypacanthoplites subrectangulatus ammonite
Hypacanthoplites subrectangulatus propinquus Casey
 Ammonitida - Leymeriellidae