Le Fret Formation trilobites, Rade de Brest, Massif Armoricain (Devonian of France)

Where: Alsace, France (48.4° N, 4.5° W: paleocoordinates 38.1° S, 30.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Le Fret Formation, Late/Upper Emsian (402.5 - 391.9 Ma)

• upper Emsian

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone and shale

• Lithotypes from diagrammatic section: "calcaires"; "schistes" [with symbol that seems to denote limestone nodules]

Primary reference: P. Morzadec. 1983. Trilobites du Devonien (Emsien-Famennien) de la Rade de Brest (Massif Armoricain). Palaeontographica Abteilung A 181(4-6):103-184 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 40065: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 16.06.2004

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Taxonomic list

• Trilobites only.
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Trilobita
 Proetida - Otarionidae
Otarion (Otarion) gaultieri
 Proetida - Proetidae
Proetus (Gerastos) "sp. 1"
Proetus (Gerastos) "sp. 1" Goldfuss 1843 trilobite
 Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Radiaspis sp., Leonaspis (Leonaspis) britannica
Radiaspis sp. Richter and Richter 1917 trilobite
 Phacopida - Acastidae
"Treveropyge (Treveropyge) celtica" = Coltraneia celtica, Greenops struvei, Breizhops lanceolatus, Kayserops kerfornei, Kayserops inflatus, "Comura (Comura) granulispina" = Asteropyge (Comura), "Rhenops babini" = Pennarbedops babini
"Treveropyge (Treveropyge) celtica" = Coltraneia celtica Morzadec 1969 trilobite
Greenops struvei trilobite
"Comura (Comura) granulispina" = Asteropyge (Comura) trilobite
"Rhenops babini" = Pennarbedops babini Morzadec 1983 trilobite
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
Phacops sp.
Phacops sp. Emmrich 1839 trilobite
 Lichida - Lichidae
"Lobopyge pustulosus" = Belenopyge
"Lobopyge pustulosus" = Belenopyge trilobite