Unit XII (inférieur Hauterivian) - Coupe de Vergons (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Provence, France (43.9° N, 6.6° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 28.9° N, 28.8° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hauterivian (132.9 - 129.4 Ma)

• Collection from bed XII, a 140 m thick limestone, 490 m above the base of the section. No apparent lithostratigraphic nomenclature.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• No paleoenvironmental data readily apparent; obviously from a carbonate facies, however.
• Compact limestone.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Collection a composite for the unit described in text.

Primary reference: P. Cotillon. 1968. Le Crétacé inférieur de l'arc subalpin de Castellane entre l'Asse et le Var: Stratigraphy et Sédimentologie. 68 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 56055: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.11.2005

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Taxonomic list

• Faunal list compiled by d'Orbigny (1840) and Kilian (1895), and possibly the present author; nomenclature presumably revised by the present author, although this may now be antiquated.
unclassified
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae
Olcostephanus sp. Neumayr 1875 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Ptychoceratidae
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Subsaynella sayni Paquier 1901 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Crioceratitidae
"Crioceratites ex gr. duvali" = Crioceratites duvalii Léveillé 1837 ammonite
Balearites sp. Sarkar 1954 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
"Neocomites nodosoplicatus" = Lyticoceras nodosoplicatum Kilian and Reboul 1915 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Haploceratidae
"Neolissoceras grasi" = Neolissoceras grasianum
"Neolissoceras grasi" = Neolissoceras grasianum d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phylloceras cf. semisulcatum d'Orbigny 1842 ammonite
Phyllopachyceras infundibulum d'Orbigny 1840 ammonite
 Ammonoidea -
Foraminifera
 Globigerinoidea - Globigerinidae
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Gavelinellidae
Nodosariata
 Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Lenticulina ouachensis
Subspecies: Lenticulina ouachensis paucistriata