Ligné, nodules (Llanvirn) (Ordovician of France)

Where: France (47.4° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 67.1° S, 78.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Glyptograptus teretiusculus graptolite zone, Pierre-Meliere Formation, Llanvirn (468.0 - 458.4 Ma)

• Llanvirn

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; silty siliciclastic sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: J.-L. Henry. 1980. Trilobites ordoviciens du Massif armoricain. Mémoires de la Société Géologique et Minéralogique de Bretagne 22:1-250 [D. Gendry/D. Gendry]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174544: authorized by Damien Gendry, entered by Damien Gendry on 15.11.2015

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Asaphida - Cyclopygidae
Pricyclopyge synophthalma Kloucek 1916 trilobite
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Colpocoryphe inopinata Novak and Perner 1918 trilobite