Riadan, Pléchâtel (Ordovician of France)

Where: France (47.9° N, 1.8° W: paleocoordinates 68.1° S, 72.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Postolonnec Formation, Sandbian (458.4 - 453.0 Ma)

• Caradoc basal

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, silty schist

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 174560: authorized by Damien Gendry, entered by Damien Gendry on 15.11.2015

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Crozonaspis dujardini Rouault 1847 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Prionocheilus verneuili Rouault 1847 trilobite