Saint Fiacre Formation trilobites, Rade de Brest, Massif Armoricain (Devonian of France)

Where: Alsace, France (48.4° N, 4.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° S, 25.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Saint Fiacre Formation, Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale and limestone

• Lithotypes from diagrammatic section: "schistes" [including some with limestone nodules]; "calcaires"

Primary reference: P. Morzadec. 1983. Trilobites du Devonien (Emsien-Famennien) de la Rade de Brest (Massif Armoricain). Palaeontographica Abteilung A 181(4-6):103-184 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 40070: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 16.06.2004

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Taxonomic list

• Trilobites only.
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
Phacops sp. Emmrich 1839 trilobite
 Phacopida - Acastidae