Also known as Layer K, Couches du Foulon Fm., Foulon, Montagne Noire, France

Where: Montagne Noire, France (43.0° N, 3.0° E: paleocoordinates 63.8° S, 97.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Neseuretus arenosus - Symphysurus sabulosus trilobite zone, Niveau K Member (Couches du Foulon Formation), Klabava (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, concretionary, sandy shale and lithified sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: C. Babin, R. Courtessole, M. Melou, J. Pillet, D. Vizcaino and E. L. Yochelson. 1982. Brachiopodes (Articulés) et mollusques (bivalves, rostroconches, monoplacophores, gastéropodes) de l’Ordovicien inférieur (Trémadocien-Arenigien) de la Montagne Noire (France méridionale) 1-63 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 20824: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 10.06.2002

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