Where: Montagne Noire, France (43.5° N, 3.0° E: paleocoordinates 63.0° S, 97.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• Couches de la Maurerie Niveau H in older papers. Tetragraptus akzharensis graptolite zone

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, cherty/siliceous shale and lithified sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: E. L. Yochelson. 1982. Mollusques monoplacopheres et gastropodes. In C. Babin, R. Courtessole, M. Melour, J. Pillet, D. Vizcaino & E.L. Yochelson (eds.), Brachiopodes (Articules) et Mollusques (Bivalves, Rostroconches, Monoplacophores, Gastropodes) de L'Ordovicien Inferieur (Tremadocien - Arenigien) de la Montagne Noire (France Meridionale) 51-63 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167632: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 26.03.2015

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