Unit 19 (Barremian) - Castagne (W of Bargeme) (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Provence, France (43.7° N, 6.6° E: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 16.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)

• Collection from bed 19, 0.5-4.5 m thick limestone, from the lowermost Barremian. No apparent lithostratigraphic nomenclature.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, glauconitic, phosphatic limestone

• No paleoenvironmental data readily apparent; obviously from a carbonate facies, however.
• Glauconitic limestone, with phosphatic nodules (calcaire en general glauconieux).

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 56782: 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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unclassified
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Jaubertites sp.
Cephalopoda
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phyllopachyceras infundibulum
Phyllopachyceras infundibulum d'Orbigny 1840 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Heteroceratidae
"Moutoniceras moutonianum" = Hemibaculites
"Moutoniceras moutonianum" = Hemibaculites ammonite
 Ammonitida - Ancyloceratidae
Acrioceras tabarelli
Acrioceras tabarelli Astier 1851 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Pulchelliidae
Nicklesia pulchella, Nicklesia didayi, Pulchellia nicklesi, Pulchellia compressissima, Subpulchellia castellanensis
 Ammonitida - Holcodiscidae
Holcodiscus perezi, Holcodiscus aff. gastaldi, Holcodiscus aff. fallax, Holcodiscus cailaudi, Holcodiscus geronimae, Holcodiscus aff. diversecostatus, Astieridiscus elegans
 Ammonitida - Crioceratitidae
Crioceratites ex gr. fallauxi, "Emericiceras thiollieri" = Crioceratites (Emericiceras)
"Emericiceras thiollieri" = Crioceratites (Emericiceras) ammonite
 Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
Saynella grossourvrei
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
"Barremites strettostoma" = Barremitites strettostoma, Barremites charrieri, Barremites vocontium, Barremites ponticum, Barremites difficilis
"Barremites strettostoma" = Barremitites strettostoma Uhlig 1883 ammonite
Barremites difficilis d'Orbigny 1840 ammonite