M-Ord section, Reaumur, Ille-et-Vilaine, France (Ordovician of France)

Where: Ille-et-Vilaine, France (48.0° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 68.0° S, 72.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Dobrotivian (459.0 - 457.9 Ma)

• Unknown or unnamed formation

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, bioturbated, concretionary, pyritic, sandy shale

• Dark shale with fine laminations and occasional lenticles, bioturbation, sand, and pyrite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. Babin. 1966. Mollusques bivalves et céphalopodes du Paléozoïque Armoricain. Étudé systématique. Essai sur la phylogénie des bivalves. Esquisse paléoécologique. Imprimerie Commerciale et Administrative. Brest 1-471 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 20862: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 11.06.2002

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Taxonomic list

• Bivalve taxonomy and biostratigraphy
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Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
"? Leda sp." = Nuculana
"? Leda sp." = Nuculana Link 1807 pointed nut clam