Where: France (46.1° N, 6.8° E: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 8.7° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Calcaires de Fiz Formation, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)
• 20 cm
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic, phosphatic packstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with calcite, 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 58246: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 30.01.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Paraturbo sp. Cossmann 1907 snail | |
? Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Puzosia mayoriana" = Puzosia (Puzosia) mayoriana
"Puzosia mayoriana" = Puzosia (Puzosia) mayoriana d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite | |
Beudanticeras beudanti Brongniart 1822 ammonite | |
? Mortoniceras sp. Meek 1876 ammonite
Hysteroceras sp. Hyatt 1900 ammonite | |
Scaphites sp. Parkinson 1811 ammonite | |
Hamites sp. Parkinson 1811 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Echinoidea | |
Holaster laevis sea urchin
Holaster perezii sea urchin | |
Discoides sp. Parkinson 1811 sea urchin | |
Conulus castaneus sea urchin | |
Tetragramma brongniarti sea urchin |