Also known as Was: Layer H, Couches de la Maurerie Fm., Maurerie, Montagne Noire, France
Where: Montagne Noire, France (43.5° N, 3.0° E: paleocoordinates 63.0° S, 97.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Taihungshania miqueli trilobite zone, La Maurerie Formation, Floian (477.7 - 470.0 Ma)
• Couches de la Maurerie Niveau H in older papers. Tetragraptus akzharensis graptolite zone
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, cherty/siliceous shale and lithified sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
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 20820: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 10.06.2002, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Tergomya | |
"Archinacella ovata" = Barrandicella ovata
"Archinacella ovata" = Barrandicella ovata Perner 1903 | |
"Gamadiscus courtessolei" = Carcassonnella courtessolei
"Gamadiscus courtessolei" = Carcassonnella courtessolei Yochelson 1982 | |
Gastropoda | |
Sinuites sp. Koken 1896 snail | |
"Cymbularia laevis" = Thoralispira laevis
"Cymbularia laevis" = Thoralispira laevis Thoral 1935 snail | |
Peelerophon oehlerti Bergeron 1889 snail | |
Lesueurilla prima, "Pararaphistoma (Climacoraphistoma) vaginati" = Pararaphistoma vaginati
Lesueurilla prima Perner 1903 snail
"Pararaphistoma (Climacoraphistoma) vaginati" = Pararaphistoma vaginati Koken and Perner 1925 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Coxiconcha sp." = Coxiconchia
"Coxiconcha sp." = Coxiconchia Babin 1966 clam | |
Babinka sp. Barrande 1881 clam | |
Redonia sp. Rouault 1851 clam | |
Noradonta sp. Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977 clam | |
"Miquelana sp." = Thoralia
"Miquelana sp." = Thoralia Morris 1980 clam | |
Synek sp. Barrande 1881 clam | |
Ekaterodonta sp. Babin 1982 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Orthambonites sp. Pander 1830 | |
Pleurorthis sp. Cooper 1956 | |
Lingulata | |
Conotreta sp. Walcott 1889 | |
Trilobita | |
Ampyx sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite | |
Taihungshania miqueli Bergeron 1893 trilobite | |
Paramegalaspis sp. Thoral 1935 trilobite
"Niobella sp." = Niobe (Niobella) Reed 1931 trilobite
"? Megalaspis sp." = Megistaspis Jaanusson 1956 trilobite | |
Neseuretus sp. Hicks 1873 trilobite | |
Stylophora | |
Anatifopsis sp. Barrande 1872 | |
Cheirocrinus sp. Eichwald 1856 | |
Eocrinoidea | |
Balantiocystis sp. Chauvel 1966 | |
Pterobranchia | |
? Didymograptus sp. McCoy 1851 graptolite |