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

Also known as Pond location, e layer

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)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: gray, blue, argillaceous schist

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 23260: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Allison Tuell on 11.07.2002

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Stocksmansella langii
originally Taeniocrada langi
Estinnophyton gracile
redescribed from Steemans, 1989 collection: originally Protolepidodendron wahnbachense
Branchiopoda
 Diplostraca -
Estheria sp. Ruppell 1837 clam shrimp
crustacean