Unit XIII (supérieur Hauterivian) - Coupe de la vallée du Cheiron (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Provence, France (43.9° 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 XIII, a 32 m thick marl, 527 m above the base of the section. 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 56064: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.11.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Faunal list presumably compiled by the present author, although nomenclature may now be antiquated.
Foraminifera
 Globigerinina - Hedbergellidae
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
 Rotaliina - Globorotalitidae
Globorotalites bartensteini
[entered as Globoratalites bartensteini]
 Globigerinoidea - Globorotaliidae
Globorotalia bartensteini
[entered as Globoratalia bartensteini]
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Gavelinellidae
Gavelinella sp. Brotzen 1942
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
 Ammonitida - Crioceratitidae
 Belemnitida - Belemnitidae
"Hibolites subfusiformis" = Belemnites (Hibolites)
"Hibolites subfusiformis" = Belemnites (Hibolites) belemnite
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
"Nautilus neocomiensis" = Cymatoceras neocomiense
"Nautilus neocomiensis" = Cymatoceras neocomiense d'Orbigny 1840 nautiloid