Abstract
Abstract The discovery, in several localities, of significant planktonic Foraminifera, Danian–Selandian in age (P1c–P3 interval), both in the matrix of polygenic, post-metamorphic and post-tectonic debris-flow breccias (Comus Breccia Fm.) and in argillaceous hemipelagites, interbedded within these breccias, evidences the occurrence, during Palaeocene, of a longitudinal east–west marine trough, particularly open towards the Atlantic Ocean, within the present Internal Metamorphic Zone (and adjacent North-Pyrenean areas) of Central Pyrenees, from Aude to Haute-Garonne. This new dating shows the major importance of the Upper(most) Cretaceous compressions in the structuration of the tectorogenic axis of the range.
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