Ille-et-Vilaine (Ordovician of France)

Also known as Gres Armoricain Superieur Fm., Ille-et-Vilaine, France

Where: Ille-et-Vilaine, France (48.0° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 64.2° S, 83.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Superieur Member (Grès Armoricain Formation), Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified sandstone and lithified shale

• Sandstone occasionally intercalated with shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. Babin. 1966. Mollusques bivalves et céphalopodes du Paléozoïque Armoricain. Étudé systématique. Essai sur la phylogénie des bivalves. Esquisse paléoécologique. Imprimerie Commerciale et Administrative. Brest 1-471 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 20852: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 11.06.2002, edited by Austin Hendy

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Taxonomic list

• Bivalve taxonomy and biostratigraphy
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
 Actinodontida - Cycloconchidae
Actinodonta sp. Philipps 1848 clam
 Unioni - Lyrodesmatidae
"Lyrodesma armoricana" = Tromelinodonta armoricana
"Lyrodesma armoricana" = Tromelinodonta armoricana de Tromelin and Lebesconte 1875 clam
 Nuculida - Praenuculidae
Synek antiquus Barrande 1881 clam
 Nuculanida - Cucullellidae
Nuculites sp. Conrad 1841 clam
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
"? Leda lebescontei" = Nuculana
"? Leda lebescontei" = Nuculana pointed nut clam