Where: Orne, France (49.0° N, 1.0° W: paleocoordinates 67.4° S, 68.3° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Pont-de-Caen Formation, Dobrotivian to Dobrotivian (459.0 - 449.8 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, micaceous shale and lithified sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: M. Robardet, J. L. Henry, J. Nion, F. Paris, and J. Pillet. 1972. La Formation du Pont-de-Caer (Caradocien) dans les synclinaux de Domfront et de Sees (Normandie). Annales - Societe Geologique du Nord 92(3):117-137 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 20871: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 11.06.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Protozoa | |
Rhabdochitina sp., Fungochitina sp., Desmochitina sp., Hoegisphaera sp., Euconochitina sp., Cyathochitina sp.
Hoegisphaera sp. Staplin 1961
Euconochitina sp. Taugourdeau 1966 | |
Ostracoda | |
Ceratopsis sp. Ulrich 1894 ostracod | |
Primitiella sp. Ulrich 1894 ostracod | |
Bollia sp. Jones and Holl 1886 ostracod | |
Trilobita | |
Denckmannites sp. Wedekind 1911 trilobite | |
Kloucekia sp. Delo 1935 trilobite | |
Plaesiacomia sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite | |
Chitinozoa | |
Conochitina sp. Eisenack 1931 |