Where: Namur, Belgium (50.3° N, 5.0° E: paleocoordinates 17.4° S, 4.5° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: VCo spore Biozone zone, Evieux Formation, Late/Upper Famennian (364.7 - 360.7 Ma)
• Found on the northern rim of the Dinant Synclinorium
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; gray mudstone
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•Fairon-Demaret (2001, p.81): The channel fill includes a clay plug indicative of a switch from tide influenced estuary deposits with lateral arenaceous accretion structures to alluvio-fluvial deposits of horizontal gray to dark mudstone beds.
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• Specimens were prepared using the "degagement technique" (Leclercq 1960)
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•Fairon-Demaret (2001, p.80): The specimens are housed in the Palaeobatany collection of the Univeristy of Liege, Belgium and of the Royal Institute of Natural Sciences at Brussels, Belgium.
Primary reference: M. Fairon-Demaret. 1996. Dorinnotheca streelii Fairon-Demaret, gen. et sp. nov., a new early seed plant from the upper Famennian of Belgium. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 93:217-233 [W. Stein/D. Horvath/N. Smith]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 23334: authorized by Bill Stein, entered by Dylan Horvath on 12.07.2002, edited by Nicole Smith
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Archaeopteridopsida | |
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| Condrusia rumex | |
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| Moresnetia zalesskyi | |
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