Calcaires de balme, Grand Névé, Haut-Giffre, Haute-Savoie: Late/Upper Albian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae
Mortoniceras ex gr. fallax (Breistroffer 1940)
1 specimen
recombined as Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) fallax
Echinoidea - Pseudodiadematidae
Polydiadema rhodani
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:France
Coordinates: 46.1° North, 6.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.7° North, 8.7° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:2490 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Albian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 4
Key time interval:Late/Upper Albian Ammonoid zone: Mortoniceras fallax
Age range of interval:106.20000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Grès verts helvétiques
Local section:Grand Névé Local bed:Calcaires de Balme
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:condensed,phosphatic lithified conglomerate
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:56541
Authorizer:L. Villier Enterer:L. Villier
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-11-21 05:25:38 Last modified:2021-05-14 11:21:54
Access level:the public Released:2005-11-21 05:25:38
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]