Unit XVI (Barremian) - Coupe de Vergons: Barremian, France
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Ancyloceratidae
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Ancyloceras sp.
d'Orbigny 1842
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Heteroceratidae
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Heteroceras astieri
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Cephalopoda
- Macroscaphitidae
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Macroscaphites yvani
(Puzos 1831)
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Geography
| Country: | France | State/province: | Provence |
| Coordinates: | 43.9° North, 6.6° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.2° North, 16.3° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Barremian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 2 |
| Key time interval: | Barremian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 125.77000 - 121.40000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Local section: | Vergons | Local bed: | 577 m | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 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. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | calcareous marl |
| Lithology description: Calcareous marl. | |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
| Geology comments: No paleoenvironmental data readily apparent; obviously from a carbonate facies, however. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Collection a composite for the unit described in text. | |
| Taxonomic list comments: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. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 56059 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-11-10 21:42:44 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-11-10 21:42:43 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 15116. | 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] |