Where: Montagne Noire, France (43.0° N, 3.0° E: paleocoordinates 60.4° S, 101.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Shumardia (Conophrys) pusilla trilobite zone, Level D Member (Couches de Barroubio Formation), Tremadoc (486.5 - 477.7 Ma)

• Listed as Upper Tremadoc. Shumardia zone

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified sandstone and lithified, concretionary limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: C. Babin, R. Courtessole, M. Melou, J. Pillet, D. Vizcaino and E. L. Yochelson. 1982. Brachiopodes (Articulés) et mollusques (bivalves, rostroconches, monoplacophores, gastéropodes) de l’Ordovicien inférieur (Trémadocien-Arenigien) de la Montagne Noire (France méridionale) 1-63 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76572: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Paul Hearn on 23.11.2007

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