Unit 16 (Hauterivien) - Point Sublime du Rougon (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Provence, France (43.8° N, 6.5° E: paleocoordinates 34.4° N, 16.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hauterivian (132.9 - 129.4 Ma)

• Collection from bed 16, a marl, in the upper Hauterivian. No apparent lithostratigraphic nomenclature.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: poorly lithified marl and calcareous marl

• No paleoenvironmental data readily apparent; obviously from a carbonate facies, however.
• Calcareous marl (marneuses et calcaréo marneuses).

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 56779: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.11.2005

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Taxonomic list

• Faunal list presumably compiled by the present author, and previous literature, including: Mongin and Trouve (1953) na dKillian (1893), although nomenclature may now be antiquated.
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Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Toxasteridae
Toxaster sp.
Toxaster sp. Agassiz 1839 heart urchin
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Crioceratitidae
Crioceratites nolani, Balearites sp.
Balearites sp. Sarkar 1954 ammonite
 Belemnitida - Belemnitidae
"Hibolites sp." = Belemnites (Hibolites)
"Hibolites sp." = Belemnites (Hibolites) Mayer-Eymar 1883 belemnite
Foraminifera
 Rotaliina - Globorotalitidae
Globorotalites bartensteini