Fételay marls, Creux, massif des Bornes, Haute-Savoie: Early/Lower Albian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Osteichtyes indet.
2 specimens
teeth
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthohoplitidae
Hypacanthoplites sp. Spath 1923
2 specimens
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Leymeriellidae
Leymeriella sp.
5 specimens
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida
Mesohibolites sp.
1 specimen
Bivalvia
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758
4 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula sp. Lamarck 1801
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
? Inoceramus cf. coptensis Casey 1961
2 specimens
recombined as Birostrina coptensis
see common names

Geography
Country:France
Coordinates: 46.1° North, 6.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.8° North, 12.5° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:800 meters
Geographic resolution:hand sample
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Albian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 4
Key time interval:Early/Lower Albian
Age range of interval:113.00000 - 109.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Grès verts Dauphinois
Local section:Lars Local bed:Marnes de Fételay
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 1 m
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:pyritic,black lithified claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:offshore
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,cast
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:58973
Authorizer:L. Villier Enterer:L. Villier
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-03-02 02:39:16 Last modified:2006-03-02 04:39:16
Access level:the public Released:2006-03-02 02:39:15
Creative Commons license:CC BY
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]