Where: Languedoc-Roussillon, France (43.5° N, 3.0° E: paleocoordinates 63.0° S, 97.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Taihungshania miqueli trilobite zone, H Member (La Maurerie Formation), Floian (477.7 - 470.0 Ma)

• Taihungshania miqueli acme Subzone ¼ faunizone “H”= IGCP 410 TS 1c-d, latest Tremadocian– TS 2a earliest Floian.

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•Called Couches de la Maurerie, Niveau H in the French literature.

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•According to Fortey (2011), this should be basal Floian, in the Tetragraptus akzharensis zone.

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; nodular, black, silty, cherty/siliceous shale and sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, original aragonite

Primary reference: R. J. Horný and J. S. Peel. 1996. Carcassonnella, a new Lower Ordovician bellerophontiform mollusc with dorsally located retractor muscle attachments (Class Tergomya). Bulletin of the Czech Geological Survey 71(4):305-331 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167630: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 26.03.2015

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