Unit XIV (Barremian) - Coupe de la vallée du Cheiron (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Provence, France (43.9° N, 6.5° E: paleocoordinates 34.2° N, 16.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)

• Collection from bed XIV, a 28 m thick marl, 555 m above the base of the section, immediately above Hauterivian strata. No apparent lithostratigraphic nomenclature.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone and marl

• No paleoenvironmental data readily apparent; obviously from a carbonate facies, however.
• Compact limestone, with thin alternating marls.

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 56065: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.11.2005

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Taxonomic list

• Faunal list presumably compiled by the present author, although nomenclature may now be antiquated.
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unclassified
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Clavidhedbergella ex gr. simplex
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Pulchelliidae
Pulchellia compressissima, Nicklesia pulchella, Subpulchellia castellanensis
 Ammonitida - Holcodiscidae
Spitidiscus aff. hugii, Holcodiscus caillaudi, Holcodiscus perezi, Holcodiscus diversecostatus
 Ammonitida - Ancyloceratidae
Acrioceras tabarelli
Acrioceras tabarelli Astier 1851 ammonite
Foraminifera
 Globigerinoidea - Globigerinidae
Globigerinidae indet.
Globigerinidae indet. Carpenter et al. 1862