Lindars conglomerate, Chardonnière, massif de Platé, Haute-Savoie (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (46.0° N, 6.8° E: paleocoordinates 34.6° N, 8.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: couches de Balme Member (Grès verts helvétiques Formation), Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• 15 cm

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, fine-grained, glauconitic, phosphatic, intraclastic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

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 58426: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 06.02.2006

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
Pseudhelicoceras sp. Spath 1922 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Anisoceratidae
Anisoceras armatum Sowerby 1817 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Lyelliceratidae
Neophlycticeras sp. Spath 1922 ammonite