Unit X (inférieur Hauterivian) - Coupe de Vergons (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Provence, France (43.9° N, 6.6° E: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 16.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hauterivian (132.9 - 129.4 Ma)

• Collection from bed X, a 32 m thick limestone, 332 m above the base of the section, immediately overlying Valanginian strata. No apparent lithostratigraphic nomenclature.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

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

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 56053: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.11.2005

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Taxonomic list

• Faunal list compiled by d'Orbigny (1840) and Kilian (1895), and possibly the present author; nomenclature presumably revised by the present author, although this may now be antiquated.
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
Lyticoceras (Olcostephanus) sp., Lyticoceras "sp. 1", Lyticoceras aff. cryptoceras, Distoloceras cf. spiniger
Lyticoceras "sp. 1" Hyatt 1900 ammonite
Lyticoceras aff. cryptoceras d'Orbigny 1840 ammonite
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Haplophragmoididae
Haplophragmoides neocomianus