L'Asnerie section, bed 48a, Armorican Massif (Devonian of France)

Where: Mayenne, France (48.1° N, 0.8° W: paleocoordinates 46.3° S, 38.3° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Saint-Cenere Formation, Pragian (410.8 - 407.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal limestone

• only lithologic information in the paper describes the sections as interbedded shales and bioclastic limestones; information entered below based on judgement from strat column illustrations

Collection methods: three horizons listed within bed 48, this is the bottommost horizon

Primary reference: P. Morzadec, F. Paris, Y. Plusquellec, P. R. Rachebouef, and M. Weyant. 1991. La limite Lochkovien-Praguien (Devonien inferieur) dans le Massif armoricain: especes index et correlations. Comptes Rendus de l''Academie des Sciences, Serie II 313:901-908 [A. Miller/K. Layou/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 6108: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 27.01.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• list is based on "selected taxa among conodonts, chitinozoans, brachipods, and trilobites"
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae