Denée (Carboniferous to of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (50.3° N, 4.8° E: paleocoordinates 9.8° S, 5.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Marbre Noir Formation, Arundian to Arundian (346.7 - 340.0 Ma)

• "Lower Viséan"

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

• apparently a marble

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Collection Abbaye de Maredsous

Primary reference: J. G. Maisey. 2008. Some observations on Denaea fournieri (Chondrichthyes, Symmoriiformes) from the Lower Carboniferous of Belgium. Acta Geologica Polonica 58(2):185-190 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90649: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 11.08.2009, edited by Sophie Fasey

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Eurynotiformes - Styracopteridae
Benedenius deneensis n. gen. n. sp.
Benedenius deneensis n. gen. n. sp. van Beneden 1871
IRScNB P 01261 (holotype), exact locality not recorded
Chondrichthyes
 Symmoriiformes - Falcatidae
Denaea fournieri n. gen. n. sp.
Denaea fournieri n. gen. n. sp. Pruvost 1922 elasmobranch