Tournai (Carboniferous of Belgium)

Where: Wallonia, Belgium (50.6° N, 3.4° E: paleocoordinates 15.3° S, 3.5° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Siphonodella crenulata - Siphonodella isoticha conodont zone, Maurenne Formation, Hastarian (358.9 - 353.8 Ma)

• Given as T1ch by Weir, but Tn2C elsewhere; Calcaire d'Allain was another possibility. Was Calcaire de Maredsous. Cf1-gamma foram zone. RC2 coral zone. Siphonodella conodont zone.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• dark gray, coarse grained, crinoidal limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Weir. 1931. The British and Belgian Carboniferous Bellerophontidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 56(31):767-861 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 147213: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 06.07.2013

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Taxonomic list

• gastropods only
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
"Tropidocyclus duchastelii" = Sinuitina duchastelii
"Tropidocyclus duchastelii" = Sinuitina duchastelii Léveillé 1835 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
Patellostium witryanum de Koninck 1843 snail
 Bellerophontida - Euphemitidae
"Euphemus filosus n. sp." = Euphemites filosus1
"Euphemus filosus n. sp." = Euphemites filosus1 de Koninck 1883 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
"Bellerophon munsteri" = Waagenella muensteri, Bellerophon sublaevis3, Bellerophon bicarenus, "Bucaniopsis elegans" = Retispira elegans, "Bellerophon umbilicatus" = Teutonophon umbilicatus
"Bellerophon munsteri" = Waagenella muensteri de Ferrusac and d'Orbigny 1840 snail
subspecies Bellerophon munsteri plicatus
Bellerophon sublaevis3 Potiez and Michaud 1838 snail
Bellerophon bicarenus Léveillé 1835 snail
includes Bellerophon bicarenus var. latifascia
"Bucaniopsis elegans" = Retispira elegans de Ferrusac and d'Orbigny 1840 snail
"Bellerophon umbilicatus" = Teutonophon umbilicatus Potiez and Michaud 1838 snail
 Trochoidea - Araeonematidae
"Turbo pygmaeus n. sp." = Yunnania pygmaeus2
"Turbo pygmaeus n. sp." = Yunnania pygmaeus2 de Koninck 1844 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
"Pleurotomaria radula n. sp." = Rhineoderma radula2
"Pleurotomaria radula n. sp." = Rhineoderma radula2 de Koninck 1844 snail