Unit 15 (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 15, a marl, in the middle 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 56777: 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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Paraspinoceras pulcherriumum
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Crioceratitidae
Balearites sp., "Balearites balearus" = Balearites balearis, "Crioceratites ex gr. duvali" = Crioceratites duvalii
Balearites sp. Sarkar 1954 ammonite
"Balearites balearus" = Balearites balearis Nolan 1894 ammonite
"Crioceratites ex gr. duvali" = Crioceratites duvalii Léveillé 1837 ammonite
Nodosariata
 Polymorphinida - Polymorphinidae
Globulina prisca
 Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Lenticulina ex gr. saxonica
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Vaginulina kochii, Vaginulina gaultina
Foraminifera
 Globigerinina - Hedbergellidae
Hedbergella sp.
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Gaudryina dividens, Gaudryina aff. foeda
 Spirillinina - Spirillinidae
Spirillina neocomiana
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Gavelinellidae
Gavelinella sigmoicosta