Bas Couyer, Melesse (Ordovician of France)

Where: France (48.2° N, 1.7° W: paleocoordinates 67.9° S, 71.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Andouillé Formation, Llandeilo (461.1 - 458.4 Ma)

• Llandeilian. Was Middle Ordovician

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, argillaceous, 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 174549: authorized by Damien Gendry, entered by Damien Gendry on 15.11.2015

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Acastidae
Phacopidina micheli Tromelin 1877 trilobite
couyerensis
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Eccoptochile cf. mariana Verneuil and Barrande 1855 trilobite