Hony railway station (Devonian of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (50.5° N, 5.6° E: paleocoordinates 21.4° S, 6.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: rhenana conodont zone, Lambermont Formation, Late/Upper Frasnian (379.5 - 376.1 Ma)

• Upper Rhenana Zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified shale

• shales and nodular shales with intercalations of limestone beds

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: B. Mottequin. 2008. Late Middle Frasnian to Early Famennian (Late Devonian) strophomenid, orthotetid, and athyridid brachiopods from southern Belgium. Journal of Paleontology 82(6):1052-1073 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92829: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.12.2009, edited by Barbara Seuss

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Douvillinidae
Douvillina dutertrei Murchison 1840
Douvillina area Mottequin 2008
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Stenolaemata
 Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae