La Maurerie (Ordovician of France)

Also known as Was: Layer H, Couches de la Maurerie Fm., Maurerie, Montagne Noire, France

Where: Montagne Noire, France (43.5° N, 3.0° E: paleocoordinates 63.0° S, 97.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Taihungshania miqueli trilobite zone, La Maurerie Formation, Floian (477.7 - 470.0 Ma)

• Couches de la Maurerie Niveau H in older papers. Tetragraptus akzharensis graptolite zone

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, cherty/siliceous shale and lithified sandstone

• Dark shale with chert, cone-in-cone calcite, and occasional massive quartzitic sandstone beds.

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: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 20820: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 10.06.2002, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

Tergomya
 Archinacellida - Archinacellidae
"Archinacella ovata" = Barrandicella ovata
"Archinacella ovata" = Barrandicella ovata Perner 1903
 Cyrtonellida - Carcassonnellidae
"Gamadiscus courtessolei" = Carcassonnella courtessolei
"Gamadiscus courtessolei" = Carcassonnella courtessolei Yochelson 1982
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Sinuitidae
Sinuites sp. Koken 1896 snail
 Bellerophontida -
"Cymbularia laevis" = Thoralispira laevis
"Cymbularia laevis" = Thoralispira laevis Thoral 1935 snail
 Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
Peelerophon oehlerti Bergeron 1889 snail
 Euomphalina - Lesueurillidae
Lesueurilla prima, "Pararaphistoma (Climacoraphistoma) vaginati" = Pararaphistoma vaginati
Lesueurilla prima Perner 1903 snail
"Pararaphistoma (Climacoraphistoma) vaginati" = Pararaphistoma vaginati Koken and Perner 1925 snail
Bivalvia
 Cardioni - Coxiconchiidae
"Coxiconcha sp." = Coxiconchia
"Coxiconcha sp." = Coxiconchia Babin 1966 clam
 Cardioni - Babinkidae
Babinka sp. Barrande 1881 clam
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Redonia sp. Rouault 1851 clam
 Unioni - Lyrodesmatidae
Noradonta sp. Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977 clam
 Uniomorphi - Thoraliidae
"Miquelana sp." = Thoralia
"Miquelana sp." = Thoralia Morris 1980 clam
 Nuculida - Praenuculidae
Synek sp. Barrande 1881 clam
 Afghanodesmatida - Tironuculidae
Ekaterodonta sp. Babin 1982 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Orthidae
Orthambonites sp. Pander 1830
 Orthida - Archaeorthidae
Pleurorthis sp. Cooper 1956
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
 Acrotretida - Acrotretidae
Conotreta sp. Walcott 1889
Trilobita
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Ampyx sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
 Asaphida - Taihungshaniidae
Taihungshania miqueli Bergeron 1893 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Paramegalaspis sp., "Niobella sp." = Niobe (Niobella), "? Megalaspis sp." = Megistaspis
Paramegalaspis sp. Thoral 1935 trilobite
"Niobella sp." = Niobe (Niobella) Reed 1931 trilobite
"? Megalaspis sp." = Megistaspis Jaanusson 1956 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Neseuretus sp. Hicks 1873 trilobite
Stylophora
 Mitrata - Kirkocystidae
Anatifopsis sp. Barrande 1872
 Rhombifera - Cheirocrinidae
Cheirocrinus sp. Eichwald 1856
Eocrinoidea
  -
Balantiocystis sp. Chauvel 1966
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Dichograptidae
? Didymograptus sp. McCoy 1851 graptolite