Lindars conglomerate, Ermoy, massif du Haut-Giffre, Haute-Savoie: Late Albian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Hamitidae
1 specimen
Hamites sp. Parkinson 1811
4 specimens
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
Ostlingoceras puzosianum (d'Orbigny 1842)
1 specimen
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Anisoceratidae
1 specimen
Anisoceras sp. Pictet 1854
9 specimens
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Scaphites hugardianus d'Orbigny 1842
5 specimens
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Hoplitidae
1 specimen
5 specimens
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae
1 specimen
8 specimens
1 specimen
3 specimens
1 specimen
4 specimens
1 specimen
15 specimens
1 specimen
1 specimen
2 specimens
2 specimens
11 specimens
10 specimens
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Mojsisovicsiidae
1 specimen
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Lyelliceratidae
1 specimen
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Beudanticeratidae
Beudanticeras beudanti (Brongniart 1822)
9 specimens
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Puzosia mayoriana (d'Orbigny 1841)
6 specimens
Desmoceras latidorsatum (Michelin 1838)
3 specimens
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
Kossmatella cf. agassiziana (Pictet and Roux 1847)
1 specimen
Cephalopoda - Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phylloceras subalpinum (d'Orbigny 1850)
1 specimen
2 specimens
Cephalopoda
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847
1 specimen
unclassified
8 specimens
3 specimens
Echinoidea - Holasteroida - Holasteridae
9 specimens
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
2 specimens
Echinoidea - Holectypoida - Discoididae
10 specimens
10 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Trochocyathus sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
3 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:France
Coordinates: 46.1° North, 6.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.7° North, 24.3° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:850 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Albian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 4
Key time interval: Late Albian Ammonoid zone:  Mortoniceras inflatum
Age range of interval: 106.3 - 100.5 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Grès verts helvétiques Member:couches de Balme
Local section:Ermoy Local bed:Conglomérat de Lindars
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 10 cm
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:phosphatic lithified conglomerate
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,replaced with phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Abundance in sediment:abundant
Temporal resolution:condensed
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:58125
Authorizer:L. Villier Enterer:L. Villier
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-01-22 09:09:23 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2006-01-22 09:09:23
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
15196.1% 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]