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

Where: France (46.0° N, 6.7° E: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 7.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Calcaires de Fiz Formation, Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, glauconitic, phosphatic, stromatolitic packstone

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 56681: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 22.11.2005

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Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
? Neostlingoceras sp., "Neostlingoceras carcitanense" = Neostlingoceras carcitanensis
? Neostlingoceras sp. Klinger and Kennedy 1978 ammonite
"Neostlingoceras carcitanense" = Neostlingoceras carcitanensis Matheron 1842 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Mantelliceras sp. Hyatt 1903 ammonite
Mantelliceras cf. couloni d'Orbigny 1850 ammonite
Mantelliceras cantianum Spath 1926 ammonite
Mantelliceras cf. saxbii Sharpe 1857 ammonite
Mantelliceras saxbii Sharpe 1857 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Schloenbachiidae
Schloenbachia varians Sowerby 1817 ammonite
Echinoidea
 Holasteroida - Holasteridae