Mont de Besneville Fm., Saint Sauveur le Vicomte (Ordovician of France)

Where: Manche, France (49.4° N, 1.5° W: paleocoordinates 65.5° S, 75.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Mont de Besneville Formation, Middle Ordovician (470.0 - 458.4 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified sandstone

• Light-colored sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

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 174567: authorized by Damien Gendry, entered by Damien Gendry on 15.11.2015

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Iberocoryphe bonissenti Morière 1885 trilobite