Bargy comglomerate, Combe de la Blonnière, massif des Aravis, Haute-Savoie (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (45.9° N, 6.5° E: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 8.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Conglomérats de Bargy Formation, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• 50 cm

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic, phosphatic, stromatolitic, intraclastic, calcareous conglomerate

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 58878: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 28.02.2006

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Holasteroida - Holasteridae
Holaster sp. Agassiz 1836 sea urchin
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Douvilleiceratidae
Douvilleiceras sp. Grossouvre 1894 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
"Desmoceras latidorsatum" = Desmoceras (Desmoceras) latidorsatum
"Desmoceras latidorsatum" = Desmoceras (Desmoceras) latidorsatum Michelin 1838 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Hoplitidae
 Ammonitida - Leymeriellidae
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae