74B09 (Ordovician of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (50.4° N, 4.6° E: paleocoordinates 48.3° S, 10.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bursachitina umbilicata other zone, Faulx-les-Tombes Member (Fosses Formation), Rawtheyan (448.8 - 445.2 Ma)

• Upper Beds. Given as top beds of Upper Half. Faulx-les-Tombes member overlies Bois de Presles member of Fosses. Fosses overlies Vitrival-Bruyère Formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithified, green, sandy shale

• Described as deepwater
• Green and dark-green slightly sandy shale with Tetraspis seticornis and Christiana tenuicincta

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collected by P. J. Lespérance in 1974

Primary reference: P. J. Lespérance and P. M. Sheehan. 1987. Trilobites et Brachiopodes ashgilliens (Ordovicien supérieur) de l'"Assise" de Fosse, Bande de Sambre-Meuse (Belgique). Bulletin-Institut royal des sciences naturelles de Belgique. Sciences de la terre 57:91-123 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 185306: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 18.04.2017

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Taxonomic list

• Specimens at Institut royal des sciences naturelles de Belgique
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Orthidae
 Orthida - Orthidiellidae
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptestiidae
Sampo ruralis2 Reed 1917
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Strophomena sp.2 Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824