Baugnée section (Devonian of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (50.5° N, 5.5° E: paleocoordinates 21.2° S, 5.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: rhenana conodont zone, Aisemont Formation, Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified shale and lithified limestone

• limestones and argillaceous limestones with coral biostromes; shales and nodular shales in the middle part

Size class: macrofossils

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 92848: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.12.2009, edited by Barbara Seuss

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Stenolaemata
 Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
 Trepostomida - Atactotoechidae
 Trepostomida - Stenoporidae