Gesvres (Ordovician of France)

Where: France (48.2° N, 0.8° W: paleocoordinates 66.0° S, 78.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Andouillé Formation, Middle Ordovician (470.0 - 458.4 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, silty schist

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

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 174556: authorized by Damien Gendry, entered by Damien Gendry on 15.11.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
"Eodalmanitina aff. macrophtalma" = Mucronaspis macrophtalma
"Eodalmanitina aff. macrophtalma" = Mucronaspis macrophtalma Brongniart 1822 trilobite
n. sp. aff. macrophtalma
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Prionocheilus mendax Vanek 1965 trilobite
Neseuretus sp. Hicks 1873 trilobite