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 51.8° S, 110.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Jincella convexa trilobite zone, Coulouma Formation, Middle Cambrian (509.0 - 497.0 Ma)

• Nivel F of old literature, which is top 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 199486: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 24.01.2019

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Taxonomic list

Cincta
  - Gyrocystidae
"Decacystis praeellipticus" = Gyrocystis platessa
"Decacystis praeellipticus" = Gyrocystis platessa Jaekel 1918