Old quarry northwest of Fauquez Castle, Brabant (Ordovician of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (50.6° N, 4.2° E: paleocoordinates 43.5° S, 10.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Fauquez Formation, Ashgill (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: J. F. Bockelie. 1984. The Diploporita of the Oslo region, Norway. Palaeontology 27(1):1-68 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 163003: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 09.10.2014, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

 Sphaeronitida - Sphaeronitidae
Haplosphaeronis proiciens n. sp. Regnell 1951
 Rhombifera - Echinosphaeritidae
"Echinosphaerites belgicus" = Echinosphaerites barrandei belgicus
"Echinosphaerites belgicus" = Echinosphaerites barrandei belgicus Jaekel 1899