Vélieux, au Sud de Montahuc (chemin du ravin), Minerve (Cambrian of France)

Also known as Vélieux, south of Montahuc (path of the ravine)

Where: Languedoc-Roussillon, France (43.4° N, 2.7° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 68.6° S, 2.6° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Solenopleuropsis thorali trilobite zone, Coulouma Formation, Middle Cambrian (506.5 - 497.0 Ma)

• Nivel E of old literature, which is upper part of Coulouma

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: H. Termier and G. Termier. 1973. Les Echinodermes Cincta du Cambriende la Montagne Noire (France). Geobios 6(4):243-265 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 199485: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 24.01.2019

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Taxonomic list

Cincta
  - Gyrocystidae
"Decacystis praeellipticus n. sp." = Gyrocystis platessa
"Decacystis praeellipticus n. sp." = Gyrocystis platessa Jaekel 1918