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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Heteroceras astieri ammonite | |
Ancyloceras sp. d'Orbigny 1842 ammonite | |
Macroscaphites yvani Puzos 1831 ammonite |