Unit XVI (Barremian) - Coupe de Vergons (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Provence, France (43.9° N, 6.6° E: paleocoordinates 34.2° N, 16.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)

• Collection from bed XVI, a 4 m thick limestone, 577 m above the base of the section, immediately below "Bedoulien" strata (=Aptian?). No apparent lithostratigraphic nomenclature.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: calcareous marl

• No paleoenvironmental data readily apparent; obviously from a carbonate facies, however.
• Calcareous marl.

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 56059: 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.
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Heteroceratidae
 Ammonitida - Ancyloceratidae
Ancyloceras sp. d'Orbigny 1842 ammonite
 Ammonoidea - Macroscaphitidae
Macroscaphites yvani Puzos 1831 ammonite