Mont Glauzy (Ordovician of France)

Also known as Gres du Glauzy/Calymenella boisseli quartzites Fm., Mont Glauzy, Herault, France

Where: Herault, France (43.0° N, 3.0° E: paleocoordinates 68.9° S, 85.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Glauzy Formation, Berounian (460.9 - 449.5 Ma)

• Formation known by both names: "Gres du Glauzy" and "Calymenella boisseli quartzites". PJW: now just Glauzy. Ka2.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

• Quartzite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. Prantl. 1940. Ordovicke a silurske mechovky z Montagne Noire (Languedock); Some Ordovician and Silurian Bryozoa from Montagne Noire (Languedock). Praha (Prague), Nar. Mus., Sbornik, Geol. et Pal., 2B 4:81-104 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 21014: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 14.06.2002

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Taxonomic list

• Primarily bryozoan taxonomy
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Calymenella sp. Bergeron 1890 trilobite
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida - Atactotoechidae
Cyphotrypa sp. Ulrich and Bassler 1904
 Trepostomida - Monticuliporidae
Prasopora sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1877
Atactoporella sp. Ulrich 1883
 Fenestrata - Chasmatoporidae
Enallopora sp. d'Orbigny 1849
 Cystoporata - Ceramoporidae
Crepipora sp. Ulrich 1882
 Trepostomata - Trematoporidae
Batostoma sp. Ulrich 1882
Trematopora sp. Hall 1852
 Trepostomata - Halloporidae
Hallopora sp. Bassler 1911