Unit 14 (Hauterivien) - Point Sublime du Rougon (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Provence, France (43.8° N, 6.5° E: paleocoordinates 34.4° N, 16.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hauterivian (132.9 - 129.4 Ma)

• Collection from bed 14, a marl, in the lower Hauterivian. No apparent lithostratigraphic nomenclature.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray, blue marl

• No paleoenvironmental data readily apparent; obviously from a carbonate facies, however.
• Blue-grey marl with abundant belemnites (marnes gris bleuté a belemnites).

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 56776: 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.
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Holcodiscidae
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Subsaynella sayni Paquier 1901 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
Lyticoceras cryptoceras d'Orbigny 1840 ammonite
"Neocomites nodosoplicatus" = Lyticoceras nodosoplicatum Kilian and Reboul 1915 ammonite
Neocomites "sp. 1" Uhlig 1905 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Crioceratitidae
 Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae
Olcostephanus astierianus d'Orbigny 1840 ammonite
Olcostephanus jeannoti d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
 Belemnitida - Duvaliidae
Duvalia lata belemnite
"Duvalia grasi" = Duvalia grasiana Duval-Jouve 1841 belemnite
 Belemnitida - Belemnitidae
"Hibolites subfusiformis" = Belemnites (Hibolites)
"Hibolites subfusiformis" = Belemnites (Hibolites) belemnite