Mid couches du Freu, Col de Freu, Massif des Bornes, Haute-Savoie (Cretaceous to of France)

Where: France (46.0° N, 6.4° E: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 7.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Couches du Freu Formation, Early/Lower Cenomanian to Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• About 50 cm thick at mid part of the Couches du freu

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, glauconitic, phosphatic wackestone

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 56849: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 27.11.2005

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
? Acanthoceras sp. Neumayr 1875 ammonite
Echinoidea
 Holasteroida - Holasteridae