Bois du creux, Saint Denis d'Orques (Ordovician of France)

Where: France (48.0° N, 0.3° W: paleocoordinates 65.8° S, 79.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Ordovician (470.0 - 458.4 Ma)

• Llandeilian

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, argillaceous, silty siliciclastic sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: J.-L. Henry. 1980. Trilobites ordoviciens du Massif armoricain. Mémoires de la Société Géologique et Minéralogique de Bretagne 22:1-250 [D. Gendry/D. Gendry]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174550: authorized by Damien Gendry, entered by Damien Gendry on 15.11.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Eccoptochile guillieri
Eccoptochile guillieri Tromelin 1873 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Prionocheilus mendax
Prionocheilus mendax Vanek 1965 trilobite
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
"Eodalmanitina aff. macrophtalma" = Mucronaspis macrophtalma, "Eodalmanitina sp." = Mucronaspis, Zeliszkella (Zeliszkella) renaudae
"Eodalmanitina aff. macrophtalma" = Mucronaspis macrophtalma Brongniart 1822 trilobite
n. sp. aff. macrophtalma
"Eodalmanitina sp." = Mucronaspis Destombes 1963 trilobite