Couches de Balme, Fiz aval, massif de Platé, Haute-Savoie: Late Albian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Pseudodiadematidae
Tetragramma brongniarti
7 specimens
Polydiadema rhodani
1 specimen
Echinoidea - Holasteroida - Holasteridae
Holaster laevis
11 specimens
Holaster perezii
4 specimens
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Hemiaster minimus
10 specimens
Echinoidea - Echinoneoida - Conulidae
Conulus castaneus
15 specimens
Echinoidea - Holectypoida - Discoididae
Discoides sp. Parkinson 1811
25 specimens
unclassified
Mariella gresslyi Pictet and Campiche 1861
2 specimens
Ornathothyris sp.
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Arca cf. carinata
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Birostrina concentrica
4 specimens
Birostrina sulcata
15 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
? Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
? Opis sp. Defrance 1824
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799
4 specimens
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Lechites sp. Nowak 1908
5 specimens
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
? Pseudhelicoceras sp. Spath 1922
1 specimen
Pseudhelicoceras robertianum (d'Orbigny 1842)
1 specimen
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Nostoceratidae
Turrilitoides sp. Spath 1923
1 specimen
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida
? Plesiohamites sp.
1 specimen
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Hamitidae
Hamites sp. Parkinson 1811
32 specimens
Hamites ex gr. venetzianus Pictet 1847
3 specimens
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Anisoceratidae
Idiohamites sp. Spath 1925
7 specimens
Anisoceras sp. Pictet 1854
14 specimens
Anisoceras perarmatum Pictet and Campiche 1861
2 specimens
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Labeceratidae
Hamitoides cf. studerianus
1 specimen
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Scaphites sp. Parkinson 1811
1 specimen
Scaphites hugardianus d'Orbigny 1842
2 specimens
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Desmoceras latidorsatum (Michelin 1838)
7 specimens
Puzosia mayoriana (d'Orbigny 1841)
13 specimens
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Beudanticeratidae
Beudanticeras beudanti (Brongniart 1822)
5 specimens
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Lyelliceratidae
Stoliczkaia sp. Neumayr 1875
1 specimen
Stoliczkaia notha (Seeley 1865)
2 specimens
Neophlycticeras blancheti (Pictet and Campiche 1859)
1 specimen
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Flickiidae
Salaziceras salazacensis (Hébert and Munier-Chalmas 1875)
2 specimens
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae
Cantabrigites cantabridgiensis
1 specimen
Hysteroceras sp. Hyatt 1900
1 specimen
Hysteroceras ex gr. orbignyi (Spath 1922)
15 specimens
Prohysteroceras sp. Spath 1921
3 specimens
Mortoniceras sp. Meek 1876
1 specimen
Mortoniceras ex gr. perinflatum (Spath 1922)
12 specimens
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Hoplitidae
? Anahoplites sp. Hyatt 1900
3 specimens
? Epihoplites sp.
3 specimens
Discohoplites sp.
1 specimen
Pleurohoplites ex gr. renauxianus (d'Orbigny 1840)
1 specimen
Callihoplites sp.
1 specimen
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
Kossmatella cf. agassiziana (Pictet and Roux 1847)
1 specimen
Tetragonites cf. jurinianus (Pictet 1847)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Pleurotomariidae
Pleurotomaria sp. Defrance 1826
4 specimens
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
Perissoptera sp. Tate 1865
Gastropoda - Naticidae
? Natica sp. Scopoli 1777
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Haustator cf. vibrayeanum
11 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:France
Coordinates: 46.0° North, 6.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.6° North, 24.3° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:2400 meters
Geographic resolution:hand sample
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Albian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 4
Key time interval: Late Albian Ammonoid zone:  Hysteroceras orbignyi
Age range of interval: 106.2 - 100.5 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Grès verts helvétiques Member:couches de Balme
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Fiz aval section, 30 cm
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:phosphatic,intraclastic lithified conglomerate
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,replaced with phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:condensed
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:58431
Authorizer:L. Villier Enterer:L. Villier
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-02-06 06:42:19 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2006-02-06 06:42:19
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]