Mont Notre-Dame (Ordovician of France)

Where: Montagne Noire, France (43.3° N, 3.2° E: paleocoordinates 60.1° S, 101.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Apatokephalus serratus trilobite zone, E Member (Saint-Chinian Formation), Tremadoc (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)

• Originally Schistes de Saint-Chinian, Apatokephalus serratus zone. Uppermost Tremadoc

•Also given as Eunoma filocovi zone.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, concretionary, micaceous, sandy shale and lithified sandstone

• Occasionally sandy, micaceous, shale with fossiliferous nodules and occasional sandstone beds

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167671: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 27.03.2015

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
Peelerophon oehlerti Bergeron 1889 snail