Base Grès de Monthieu, Col de Freu, Massif des Bornes, Haute-Savoie: Early/Lower Albian, France
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Leymeriellidae
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? Leymeriella sp.
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Plicatulidae
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Plicatula sp.
Lamarck 1801
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3 specimens | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | France |
| Coordinates: | 46.0° North, 6.4° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.8° North, 12.3° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
| Altitude: | 1730 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 helvétiques | Member: | Platé | ||
| Local section: | Col du Freu | Local bed: | Grès de Monthieu | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Only the first few centimeters of Grès de Monthieu | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | phosphatic poorly lithified argillaceous sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Collection size: | 4 specimens |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 56844 | ||
| Authorizer: | L. Villier | Enterer: | L. Villier |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-11-27 06:12:26 | Last modified: | 2019-02-22 10:49:17 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-11-27 06:12:26 |
| 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] |