Unit C (Albian) - Coupes de Vergons (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Provence, France (43.9° N, 6.6° E: paleocoordinates 32.5° N, 10.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• Collection from unit C, 170 m thick marl, from the lowermost Albian, immediately above a contact with Aptian strata (Clansayesien). No apparent lithostratigraphic nomenclature.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: blue marl

• No paleoenvironmental data readily apparent; obviously from a carbonate facies, however.
• Dark blue marl (epaisse serie de marnes bleu sombre)

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 56820: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 26.11.2005

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Taxonomic list

• Faunal list presumably compiled by the present author, and previous literature, including: Fromaget (1954), although nomenclature may now be antiquated.
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Foraminifera
 Globigerinina - Hedbergellidae
Hedbergella trocoida, Hedbergella gaultina, Hedbergella cf. infracretacea
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Dorothia plummeri, Verneuilinoides subfiliformis
 Rotaliina - Pleurostomellidae
Pleurostomella barroisi
 Rotaliina - Globorotalitidae
Globorotalites aff. michelinianus
Globorotalites aff. michelinianus
[entered as Globoratalites michelinianus]
 Globigerinaceae - Planomalinidae
"Globigerinelloides" gyroidinaeformis
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Discorbidae
Valvulineria gracillima
 Rotaliida - Gavelinellidae
Gyroidina cf. globosa, Gavelinella berthelini, Gavelinella rudis, Gavelinella reussi