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The discovery of new amber outcrops in France in the last fifteen years and the reinvestigation of outcrops that had been forgotten provide new sources of palaeontological data. One of these forgotten localities is the Cenomanian outcrop of Fourtou in the Aude department, Southern France. Mentioned in old manuscripts since 1700, perhaps known and used since the Palaeolithic, the Cenomanian amber of...
Un gisement paralique inedit, d'age Cenomanien inferieur, avec du bois fossile, de l'ambre insectifere et des restes de vertebres, a ete decouvert sur l'estran de la presqu'ile de Fouras (Charente-Maritime, France), a la suite d'une tempete qui a temporairement ote du littoral les nappages de cordons sableux et de vasieres. L'assemblage de bois fossiles contient trois taxons de coniferes (Agathoxylon,...
Un niveau d'argiles sableuses de Charente-Maritime (sud-ouest de la France) a fourni un nouveau gisement a ambre et vegetaux fossiles. Date de l'Albien terminal probable par les dinoflagelles, ce gisement d'ambre deviendrait le plus ancien site francais. L'inventaire des arthropodes trouves dans l'ambre, les determinations xylologiques et palynologiques et l'etude sedimentologique du gisement sont...
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