La Maurerie: Floian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Neseuretus sp. Hicks 1873
Trilobita - Asaphida - Taihungshaniidae
Taihungshania miqueli (Bergeron 1893)
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
? Megalaspis sp. Angelin 1851
replaced by Megistaspis
Niobella sp. Reed 1931
spelled with current rank as Niobe (Niobella)
Paramegalaspis sp. Thoral 1935
Trilobita - Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Ampyx sp. (Dalman 1827)
original and current combination Asaphus (Ampyx)
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Lesueurillidae
Lesueurilla prima (Perner 1903)
Yochelson 1982
Pararaphistoma (Climacoraphistoma) vaginati (Koken and Perner 1925)
Yochelson 1982
recombined as Pararaphistoma vaginati
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida
Cymbularia laevis Thoral 1935
recombined as Thoralispira laevis
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Sinuitidae
Sinuites sp. Koken 1896
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
Peelerophon oehlerti (Bergeron 1889)
Yochelson 1982
Tergomya - Cyrtonellida - Carcassonnellidae
Carcassonnella sp. Horný and Peel 1996
    = Gamadiscus courtessolei Yochelson 1982
Yochelson 1982
recombined as Carcassonnella courtessolei
reideintifed as Carcassonnella in Horný & Peel 1996
Tergomya - Archinacellida - Archinacellidae
Archinacella ovata Perner 1903
recombined as Barrandicella ovata
Bivalvia - Afghanodesmatida - Tironuculidae
Ekaterodonta sp. Babin 1982
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Praenuculidae
Synek sp. Barrande 1881
Bivalvia - Thoraliidae
Miquelana sp. Babin et al. 1982
synonym of Thoralia
Bivalvia - Lyrodesmatidae
Bivalvia - Coxiconchiidae
Coxiconcha sp. Babin 1966
corrected as Coxiconchia
Bivalvia - Babinkidae
Babinka sp. Barrande 1881
Bivalvia - Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Redonia sp. Rouault 1851
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Archaeorthidae
Pleurorthis sp. Cooper 1956
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Orthidae
Orthambonites sp. Pander 1830
Lingulata - Lingulida - Obolidae
Rafanoglossa sp. Havlicek 1980
Westonia sp. Walcott 1901
Spondyglossella sp.
Lingulata - Acrotretida - Acrotretidae
Conotreta sp. Walcott 1889
Pterobranchia - Graptoloidea - Dichograptidae
? Didymograptus sp. McCoy 1851
Stylophora - Mitrata - Kirkocystidae
Anatifopsis sp. Barrande 1872
Rhombifera - Cheirocrinidae
Cheirocrinus sp. Eichwald 1856
Eocrinoidea
Balantiocystis sp. Chauvel 1966
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Montagne Noire
Coordinates: 43.5° North, 3.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:63.0° South, 97.4° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Early/Lower Ordovician
Stage:Floian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 2
*Period:Early/Lower Ordovician *Epoch:Early/Lower Arenig
*International age/stage:Early/Lower Arenig - Middle Arenig
Key time interval:Floian Trilobite zone: Taihungshania miqueli
Age range of interval:477.70000 - 470.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:La Maurerie
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: Couches de la Maurerie Niveau H in older papers. Tetragraptus akzharensis graptolite zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified cherty/siliceous "shale"
Secondary lithology: lithified sandstone
Lithology description: Dark shale with chert, cone-in-cone calcite, and occasional massive quartzitic sandstone beds.
Environment:offshore
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:species names
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Was: Layer H, Couches de la Maurerie Fm., Maurerie, Montagne Noire, France
Database number:20820
Authorizer:A. Miller, P. Wagner Enterer:P. Novack-Gottshall, P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Collections that are a subset of this one:56656
Created:2002-06-10 07:09:25 Last modified:2018-08-11 14:59:47
Access level:the public Released:2002-06-10 07:09:25
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
6345. 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]

Secondary references:

15236 R. J. Horný and D. Vizcaïno. 1995. Thoralispira, a new Lower Ordovician cyrtonellid genus (Mollusca, Tergomya) from the Montagne Noire, southern France. Bulletin of the Czech Geological Survey 70(4):25-41 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
13409 E. L. Yochelson. 1982. Mollusques monoplacopheres et gastropodes. In C. Babin, R. Courtessole, M. Melour, J. Pillet, D. Vizcaino & E.L. Yochelson (eds.), Brachiopodes (Articules) et Mollusques (Bivalves, Rostroconches, Monoplacophores, Gastropodes) de L'Ordovicien Inferieur (Tremadocien - Arenigien) de la Montagne Noire (France Meridionale) 51-63 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]