Couches de Verds, Ermoy, massif du Haut-Giffre, Haute-Savoie (Cretaceous to of France)

Where: France (46.1° N, 6.8° E: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 11.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Couches des Verds Member (Grès verts helvétiques Formation), Early/Lower Albian to Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 105.3 Ma)

• 25 cm

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, hardground, phosphatic, flat-pebble, intraclastic, sandy conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: 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 58124: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 22.01.2006

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Anisoceratidae
Protanisoceras cf. blancheti Pictet and Campiche 1861 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Douvilleiceratidae
Douvilleiceras sp. Grossouvre 1894 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae