Sandy pelite, middle Cambrian, Cléré-sur-Layon, Maine-et-Loire: Middle Cambrian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Paradoxidae indet.
Cavet et al. 1966
Trilobita - Redlichiida - Paradoxididae
Paradoxides rugulosus
Cavet et al. 1966
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Conocoryphidae
Couloumania robusta
Cavet et al. 1966
Lingulata - Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingulidae indet. Gray 1840
Cavet et al. 1966
see common names

Geography
Country:France County:Maine-et-Loire
Coordinates: 47.1° North, 1.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:52.5° South, 103.5° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:90 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cambrian Epoch: Miaolingian
10 m.y. bin: Cambrian 3-4
Key time interval: Middle Cambrian
Age range of interval: 509 - 497 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Poudingue de Vihiers
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:micaceous metamorphosed sandy "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:offshore
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,cast
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:poor
Abundance in sediment:few
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:59189
Authorizer:L. Villier Enterer:L. Villier
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-03-21 01:37:15 Last modified:2006-03-21 03:37:15
Access level:the public Released:2006-03-21 01:37:14
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

16893.1% 12880M. Ters. 1979. Les synclinoriums paléozoïques et le Précambrien sur la façade occidentale du Massif vendéen : stratigraphie et structure. Bulletin du Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières, section 1 - Géologie de la France 2(4):293-301 [L. Villier/L. Villier]

Secondary references:

169291% P. Cavet, M. Gruet, and J. Pillet. 1966. Sur la présence du Cambrien à Paradoxides à Cléré-sur-Layon (M.-et-L.) dans le Nord-Est du Bocage Vendéen (massif armoricain). Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences Paris, série D - Sciences Naturelles 263:1685-1688 [L. Villier/L. Villier]