Sion les mines, Llandeilian (Ordovician of France)

Where: France (47.7° N, 1.6° W: paleocoordinates 68.2° S, 72.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Linochitina pissotensis other zone, Andouillé Formation, Llandeilo (461.1 - 458.4 Ma)

• Llandeilian. Originally given as Grès armoricain; however, the Andouillé is the formation of Llandeilo age.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, silty schist

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: J.-L. Henry. 1980. Trilobites ordoviciens du Massif armoricain. Mémoires de la Société Géologique et Minéralogique de Bretagne 22:1-250 [D. Gendry/D. Gendry]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174553: authorized by Damien Gendry, entered by Damien Gendry on 15.11.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
"Eodalmanitina macrophtalma" = Mucronaspis macrophtalma
"Eodalmanitina macrophtalma" = Mucronaspis macrophtalma Brongniart 1822 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Salterocoryphe salteri Rouault 1851 trilobite