Saint Nicolas de Pierrepont: Berounian, France
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Nuculida
- Cardiolariidae
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Deceptrix cf. ciae
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Bivalvia
- Solemyida
- Ctenodontidae
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Ctenodonta ? ponderata
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Ctenodonta aff. librata
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Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Malletiidae
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Ctenodonta bilunata
(Barrande 1881)
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| recombined as Myoplusia bilunata | ||||||||||
| Ctenodonta cf. bilunata perdentata | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | France | State/province: | Normandy |
| Coordinates: | 49.3° North, 1.6° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 67.4° South, 67.0° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Late Ordovician |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 4-5 | ||
| *Period: | Late/Upper Ordovician | ||
| Key time interval: | Berounian | Graptolite zone: | Orthograptus truncatus |
| Age range of interval: | 458.5 - 449.7 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Sangsurière | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Unnamed or unknown Upper Ordovician formation at Saint Nicolas de Pierrepont, France. PJW: Henry (1980) notes that this is the Sangsurière Formation.
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Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | concretionary,phosphatic lithified sandy "shale" |
| Lithology description: Dark shale with occasional dark grey layers of cone-in-cone limestone and phosphate nodules and rare sandy lenses | |
| Environment: | deep subtidal shelf |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,mold/impression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | all microfossils,some macrofossils,species names |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 20837 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller, P. Wagner | Enterer: | P. Novack-Gottshall, P. Wagner |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-06-10 08:54:46 | Last modified: | 2023-04-13 19:01:53 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-06-10 08:54:46 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 6353. | C. Babin and M. Robardet. 1972. Quelques paleotaxodontes (mollusques bivalves) de l’Ordovicien Supérieur de Saint Nicolas de Pierrepont (Normandie). Bulletin de la Société Géologique et Minéralogique de Bretagne, Série C 4:24-38 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall] |