Where: France (46.9° N, 6.3° E: paleocoordinates 35.9° N, 7.2° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Couches du Freu Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• 30 cm
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic, phosphatic, 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 58969: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 02.03.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Hamites sp. Parkinson 1811 ammonite | |
Turrilitoides cf. hugardianus d'Orbigny 1842 ammonite | |
Protanisoceras sp. ammonite | |
Hypacanthoplites sp. Spath 1923 ammonite | |
Puzosia sp. Bayle 1878 ammonite |