Unit D (Albian) - Coupes de Vergons: Albian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814
Globotextulariidae
Arenobulimina macfadyeni
Ataxophragmiidae
Marssonella oxycoma
Globothalamea - Rotaliida - Alabaminidae
Osangularia aff. brotzeni
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]