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

Where: Alsace, France (48.4° N, 4.5° W: paleocoordinates 31.3° S, 21.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Kerbelec Formation, Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone and cherty/siliceous shale

• Lithotypes from diagrammatic section: "calcaires"; "schistes a nodules siliceux"

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 40074: 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 - Proetidae
"Proetus (Gerastos) cf. tenuimargo" = Longiproetus tenuimargo
"Proetus (Gerastos) cf. tenuimargo" = Longiproetus tenuimargo Richter 1909 trilobite
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Dipleura lanvoiensis
 Phacopida - Acastidae
"? Greenops ? osismorum" = Stummiana osismorum, "Heliopyge nodosa" = Bradocryphaeus nodosa
"? Greenops ? osismorum" = Stummiana osismorum Morzadec 1983 trilobite
"Heliopyge nodosa" = Bradocryphaeus nodosa Morzadec 1983 trilobite
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
Phacops sp.
Phacops sp. Emmrich 1839 trilobite