Carriere (Quarry) of Bois de Bescaille-Location 2a (Devonian to of Belgium)

Also known as Layer f of pond location

Where: territoire d'Estinnes-au-Monts, Belgium (50.7° N, 4.1° E: paleocoordinates 27.7° S, 6.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gres (et schists) de Wepion Formation, Early/Lower Devonian to Early/Lower Devonian (419.2 - 382.7 Ma)

• Layer g above this layer was a grey blue sanstone, but no fossils were found. Fossils were found in layer f.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: gray, sandy schist

• Described as a grey sandy schist with plants.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: It is Biozone AB of Steemans, 1989, where the sediments were described originally by M. L. Bataille, 1925.

Primary reference: F. Stockmans. 1940. Vegetaux Eodevoniens de la Belgique. Musee Royal D'Histoire Naturelle De Belgique Rue Vautier 31 [P. Gensel/A. Tuell/A. Tuell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 23258: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Allison Tuell on 11.07.2002

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Taxonomic list

• Estheria sp. also found
unclassified
  -
Stocksmansella langii
originally Taeniocrada langi
Branchiopoda
 Diplostraca -
Estheria sp. Ruppell 1837 clam shrimp
crustacean
Drepanophycus spinaeformis
  -
Drepanophycus spinaeformis Goeppert 1852
redescribed from Fairon-Demaret, 1978b
Psilophytopsida
  -
 Psilophytales - Psilophytaceae