Also known as Was: Layer M, Superieur Schistes du Landeyran Fm., Landeyran, Montagne Noire, France
Where: Montagne Noire, France (43.5° N, 3.1° E: paleocoordinates 63.6° S, 96.3° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Hangchungolithus primitivus trilobite zone, M Member (Landeyran Formation), Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)
• Was: Superieur Schistes du Landeyran
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, concretionary, cherty/siliceous shale
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 20826: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 10.06.2002, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Trilobita | |
Ormathops sp. Delo 1935 trilobite | |
Pterygometopus sp. Schmidt 1881 trilobite
Monorakos sp. Schmidt 1886 trilobite | |
Platycoryphe sp. Foerste 1919 trilobite
Colpocoryphe sp. Novak and Perner 1918 trilobite | |
Neseuretus sp. Hicks 1873 trilobite | |
Otarion sp. Zenker 1833 trilobite | |
Taihungshania sp. Sun 1931 trilobite | |
Paramegalaspis sp., "Basiliella sp." = Basilicus (Basiliella)
Paramegalaspis sp. Thoral 1935 trilobite
"Basiliella sp." = Basilicus (Basiliella) Kobayashi 1934 trilobite | |
Hanchungolithus sp. Lu 1956 trilobite | |
Gastropoda | |
Sinuites sp. Koken 1896 snail | |
Peelerophon sp. Yochelson 1982 snail | |
Rostroconchia | |
Ribeiria sp. Sharpe 1853 | |
Tergomya | |
"Gamadiscus courtessolei" = Carcassonnella courtessolei
"Gamadiscus courtessolei" = Carcassonnella courtessolei Yochelson 1982 | |
Bivalvia | |
Synek sp. Barrande 1881 clam | |
"Coxiconcha sp." = Coxiconchia
"Coxiconcha sp." = Coxiconchia Babin 1966 clam | |
Babinka sp. Barrande 1881 clam | |
Redonia sp. Rouault 1851 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Hesperonomia sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936 | |
Ranorthis sp. Öpik 1939 | |
Lingulata | |
Conotreta sp. Walcott 1889 | |
Polychaeta | |
Plumulites sp. Barrande 1872 scale worm | |
Lepidocoleus sp. Faber 1886 scale worm | |
Pterobranchia | |
Didymograptus sp. McCoy 1851 graptolite | |
Tetragraptus sp. Salter 1863 graptolite
Phyllograptus sp. Hall 1858 graptolite | |
Stylophora | |
Anatifopsis sp. Barrande 1872 |