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

Where: Provence, France (43.9° N, 6.6° E: paleocoordinates 34.6° N, 15.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)

• Collection from bed XI, an 18 m thick limestone, 350 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 and marl

• No paleoenvironmental data readily apparent; obviously from a carbonate facies, however.
• Alternating calcareous marl and 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] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 56054: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.11.2005

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