PBDB Collection

Unit 12 (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 12, a 7-18 m thick marl, immediately above the base of the Hauterivian. No apparent lithostratigraphic nomenclature.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: gray marl

• No paleoenvironmental data readily apparent; obviously from a carbonate facies, however.

• Slaty grey marl

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 56774: 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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Echinoidea
Spatangoida - Toxasteridae	Toxaster sp. Toxaster sp. Agassiz 1839 heart urchin
Cephalopoda
Ammonitida - Neocomitidae	Lyticoceras "sp. 1", Lyticoceras ex gr. cryptoceras, "Leopoldia castellanensis" = Breistrofferella castellanensis Lyticoceras "sp. 1" Hyatt 1900 ammonite Lyticoceras ex gr. cryptoceras d'Orbigny 1840 ammonite "Leopoldia castellanensis" = Breistrofferella castellanensis D'Orbigny 1840 ammonite
Ammonitida - Crioceratitidae	Crioceratites nolani Crioceratites nolani ammonite
Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae	Olcostephanus aff. hispanicus, Olcostephanus sayni, Olcostephanus variegatus, "Dobrodgeiceras sp." = Valanginites Olcostephanus aff. hispanicus ammonite Olcostephanus sayni Kilian 1895 ammonite Olcostephanus variegatus Paquier 1900 ammonite "Dobrodgeiceras sp." = Valanginites Sayn 1910 ammonite
Belemnitida - Belemnitidae	"Hibolites sp." = Belemnites (Hibolites) "Hibolites sp." = Belemnites (Hibolites) Mayer-Eymar 1883 belemnite
Belemnitida - Duvaliidae	Duvalia emerici, Duvalia dilatata Duvalia emerici belemnite Duvalia dilatata Blainville 1825 belemnite
Ostracoda
Podocopida - Cytherettidae	Protocythere triplicata, "Protocythere hechti" = Hechticythere hechti Protocythere triplicata ostracod "Protocythere hechti" = Hechticythere hechti Triebel 1938 ostracod
Foraminifera
Lituolida - Lituolidae	Ammobaculites irreguliformis, Dorothia conula Ammobaculites irreguliformis Dorothia conula
Nodosariata
Nodosariida - Nodosariidae	Frondicularia inversa, Frondicularia ex gr. hastata, Vaginulina robusta, Vaginulina aff. sparsicostata, Citharina seitzi Frondicularia inversa Frondicularia ex gr. hastata Vaginulina robusta Vaginulina aff. sparsicostata Citharina seitzi
Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae	Lenticulina nodosa, Lenticulina cultrata, Lenticulina ex gr. eichenbergi, Lenticulina subgaultina, Lenticulina guttata, Lenticulina schreiteri, Lenticulina ex gr. saxonica Lenticulina nodosa Lenticulina cultrata Lenticulina ex gr. eichenbergi Lenticulina subgaultina Lenticulina guttata Lenticulina schreiteri Lenticulina ex gr. saxonica
Foraminifera
Textulariina - Prolixoplectidae	"Marssonella kummi" = Protomarssonella kummi "Marssonella kummi" = Protomarssonella kummi Zedler 1961
Lituolacea - Haplophragmoiidae	Triplasia cf. mexicana, Triplasia emslandensis Triplasia cf. mexicana Triplasia emslandensis Subspecies: Triplasia emslandensis emslandensis