Unit D (Albian) - Coupes de Vergons: Albian, France
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia
- Myalinida
- Inoceramidae
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Inoceramus sp.
Sowerby 1814
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Globotextulariidae
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Arenobulimina macfadyeni
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Ataxophragmiidae
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Marssonella oxycoma
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Globothalamea
- Rotaliida
- Alabaminidae
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Osangularia aff. brotzeni
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | France | State/province: | Provence |
Coordinates: | 43.9° North, 6.6° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 32.5° North, 10.8° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
Stage: | Albian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 4 |
Key time interval: | Albian | ||
Age range of interval: | 113.00000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Local section: | Vergons | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Collection from unit D, 14 m thick marl, from the lower Albian, not far below contact with Aptian-Cenomanian strata (Vraconian). No apparent lithostratigraphic nomenclature. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | glauconitic lithified sandy,calcareous marl |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: Lightly sandy, calcareous dark marl (marnes sombre, legerement sableuses et glauconieuse) | |
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 presumably compiled by the present author, and previous literature, including: Fromaget (1954), although nomenclature may now be antiquated. |
Metadata
Database number: | 56821 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2005-11-26 14:12:11 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-11-26 14:12:10 |
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] |