“…The biostratigraphy and relative dating of the section studied are based on comparisons with dinocyst assemblages described from numerous, biostratigraphically well-dated Campanian to Danian sequences, mainly in northwest Europe. The Campanian assemblages were compared with assemblages from Charente, the Campanian type area in France (Wilson, 1971;Masure, 1985), from Tercis les Bains (Campanian/Maastrichtian GSSP) (Antonescu et al, 2001a(Antonescu et al, , 2001bSchiøler & Wilson, 2001), from southern Limburg, the Netherlands (Wilson, 1971(Wilson, , 1974Schumacker-Lambry, 1977;Robaszynski et al, 1985;Slimani, 1995Slimani, , 2000Slimani, , 2001a, from northwest Belgium (Louwye, 1991(Louwye, , 1993Slimani, 1995Slimani, , 2000Slimani, , 2001a and from Denmark (Wilson, 1971(Wilson, , 1974. The Maastrichtian dinocyst assemblages were compared mostly with those described from the type area of that stage in southern Limburg and adjacent areas in Belgium (Wilson, 1971(Wilson, , 1974Schumacker-Lambry, 1977;Herngreen et al, 1986;Slimani, 1995Slimani, , 2000Slimani, , 2001aSchiøler et al, 1997;Brinkhuis et al, 2000), from northern Germany (Marheinecke, 1992), from Denmark and the Central North Sea (Wilson, 1971(Wilson, , 1974Schiøler & Wilson, 1993).…”