Plage de Raguenez, Finistere (Kermeur Sandstone) (Ordovician to of France)

Where: France (47.8° N, 3.8° W: paleocoordinates 69.5° S, 66.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Kermeur Sandstone Formation, Dobrotivian to Dobrotivian (459.0 - 449.8 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

• Sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Arnaud and J. Pillet. 1971. Sur l'existence de caradocien a trilobites dans le synclinal de Saint-Julien-de-Vouvantes-Angers (sud-est du Massif armoricain). Mémoires du Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières 73:151-161 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 20850: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 10.06.2002

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Trilobita
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Dalmanites sp. Barrande 1852 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Calymene sp. Brongniart 1822 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Trinucleus sp. Murchison 1839 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Orthidae
Orthis sp. Dalman 1828