Where: Manche, France (49.5° N, 1.6° W: paleocoordinates 67.3° S, 66.7° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Schistes d'Ecalgrain Formation, Berounian (460.9 - 449.5 Ma)
• d'Ecalgrain beds. PJW: given as Vauville formation. However, these should be Schistes d'Ecalgrain, which overlie the Grès de May in Normandy. These would be Berounian in age.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shale
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. Arnaud and J. Pillet. 1971. Sur l'existence de caradocien a trilobites dans le synclinal de Saint-Julien-de-Vouvantes-Angers (sud-est du Massif armoricain). Mémoires du Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières 73:151-161 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 20849: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 10.06.2002, edited by Pete Wagner and Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
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Gastropoda | |
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Bivalvia | |
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Modiolopsis sp. Hall 1847 clam
Redonia sp. Rouault 1851 clam | |
Strophomenata | |
Rafinesquina sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
? Crassiorina sp. Havlíček 1950 | |
Drabovia sp. Havlicek 1950 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Batostoma sp. Ulrich 1882 | |
Trilobita | |
Cryptolithus sp. Green 1832 trilobite
Onnia sp. Bancroft 1933 trilobite | |
Colpocoryphe sp. Novak and Perner 1918 trilobite | |
Chattiaspis sp. Struve 1958 trilobite
Dalmanitina sp. Reed 1905 trilobite
"Eodalmanitina sp." = Mucronaspis Destombes 1963 trilobite
? Eudolatites sp. Delo 1935 trilobite | |
Kloucekia sp. Delo 1935 trilobite |