Carriere de la Parisienne (Thin Basal Limestone, second collection) (Devonian of France)

Where: France (48.9° N, 2.3° E: paleocoordinates 27.4° S, 23.0° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Calcaire de Ferques Formation, Middle Frasnian (382.4 - 379.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, argillaceous carbonate

Collection methods: bulk,

• fossils preserved on 1 cm thick slabs

Primary reference: P. Wallace. 1978. Homeomorphy between Devonian brachiopod communities in France and Iowa. Lethaia 11:259-272 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3400: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 31.07.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• abundances illustrated in histogram but not given numerically
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Athyris concentrica von Buch 1834
 Spiriferida - Cyrtospiriferidae
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Schizophoria striatula von Schlotheim 1813
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
Productella subaculeata Murchison 1840
 Strophomenida - Douvillinidae
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830