Where: Languedoc-Roussillon, France (43.5° N, 3.3° E: paleocoordinates 69.9° S, 78.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Amorphognathus ordovicicus conodont zone, Gabian Formation, Kralodvorian (449.8 - 445.2 Ma)

• The fossil content of this formation, mainly consisting of characteristic elements of the brachiopod Nicolella Community, allows for correlation with other Upper Ordovician Mediterranean bioclastic limestones and dolostones, such as the Uggwa Limestone and Wolayer formations from the Carnic Alps, Austria (Schönlaub 1998), the Estana Fm. from the Spanish Central Pyrenees (Gil-Peña et al. 2004), the Cystoid Limestone from the Iberian Chains (Villas 1985), the Portixeddu and Domusnovas formations from Sardinia (Leone et al. 1991), the Rosan Fm. from the Armorican Massif (Mélou 1987), and the Upper Djeffara Fm. from Libya (Buttler & Massa 1996).

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; shelly/skeletal marl and shelly/skeletal limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Colmenar, E. Villas, and D. Vizcaïno. 2013. Upper Ordovician brachiopods from the Montagne Noire (France): endemic Gondwanan predecessors of Prehirnantian low-latitude immigrants. Bulletin of Geosciences 88(1):153-174 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 166748: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 25.02.2015

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