La Touche 2 (Ordovician of France)

Where: France (48.2° N, 0.8° W: paleocoordinates 67.5° S, 73.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Andouillé Formation, Llandeilo (461.1 - 458.4 Ma)

• Was Middle Ordovician - Ordovician

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, silty siliciclastic sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: D. L. Bruton and J.-L. Henry. 1978. Selenopeltis (Trilobita) from Brittany and its distribution in the Ordovician. Geobios 11(6):893-907 [D. Gendry/D. Gendry]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174537: authorized by Damien Gendry, entered by Damien Gendry on 15.11.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Plaesiacomia oehlerti2
Plaesiacomia oehlerti2 Kerforne 1900 trilobite
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Crozonaspis struvei1, Morgatia hupei2
Crozonaspis struvei1 Henry 1968 trilobite
Morgatia hupei2 Nion and Henry 1966 trilobite
 Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
"Selenopeltis gallicus" = Selenopeltis gallica
"Selenopeltis gallicus" = Selenopeltis gallica Bruton and Henry 1978 trilobite
gallicus
1Clarkson and Henry 1969; 2Henry 1980