Mont-Jean horizon, Pré Liabord, massif des Bornes, Haute-Savoie (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (46.9° N, 6.3° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 40.9° N, 28.9° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Couches des Verds Member (Grès verts helvétiques Formation), Early/Lower Albian (113.2 - 110.1 Ma)

• 10 cm

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, phosphatic, stromatolitic phosphorite

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 58940: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 01.03.2006

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthohoplitidae
 Ammonitida - Ptychoceratidae
Ptychoceras sp. d'Orbigny 1842 ammonite
Echinoidea
 Holectypoida - Discoididae
Discoides sp. Parkinson 1811 sea urchin