Also known as Was: Layer E, Schistes de Saint-Chinian Fm., Saint-Chinian, Montagne Noire, France

Where: Montagne Noire, France (43.3° N, 2.5° E: paleocoordinates 60.6° S, 101.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Euloma filacovi trilobite zone, E Member (Saint-Chinian Formation), Tremadoc (486.5 - 477.7 Ma)

• Originally Schistes de Saint-Chinian, Apatokephalus serratus zone. Uppermost Tremadoc

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•Also given as Eunoma filocovi zone: as that is the local zone, use that.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, concretionary, micaceous, sandy shale and lithified sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: C. Babin, R. Courtessole, M. Melou, J. Pillet, D. Vizcaino and E. L. Yochelson. 1982. Brachiopodes (Articulés) et mollusques (bivalves, rostroconches, monoplacophores, gastéropodes) de l’Ordovicien inférieur (Trémadocien-Arenigien) de la Montagne Noire (France méridionale) 1-63 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 20819: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 10.06.2002

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