Sallèles-Cabardès (Cambrian of France)

Where: France (43.3° N, 2.4° E: paleocoordinates 52.0° S, 110.8° E)

When: Eccaparadoxides macrocercus trilobite zone, Upper Member (La Gardie Formation), Middle Cambrian (509.0 - 497.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray sandstone and green shale

• The upper member, 0.5 to 5 m thick, consists of grey sandstone beds and thin green shaly intercalations

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: J. J. Alvaro, P. Courjault-Radé, J. J. Chauvel, M. P. Dabard, F. Debrenne, R. Feist, G. L. Pillola, E. Vennin, and D. Vizcaïno. 1998. Nouveau découpage stratigraphique: des séries cambriennes des nappes de Pardailhan et du Minervois (versant sud de la Montagne noire). Géologie de la France 2:3-12 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 198929: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 19.01.2019

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Taxonomic list

Cincta
  - Sucocystidae
"Sucocystis melendezi" = Undatacinctus melendezi
"Sucocystis melendezi" = Undatacinctus melendezi Schroeder 1973