Carriere (Quarry) Legage (Devonian to of Belgium)

Where: Hainuit, Belgium (50.6° N, 4.5° E: paleocoordinates 27.6° S, 7.1° 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)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: sandstone and gray shale

• The quarry is of ferruginous, psammitic sandstones that are intercalated with occasional shales. These shales are of gray-olive in color, and are fine-grained.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Although a description of the quarry is found, it is important to note that the fossils were not found in place, but rather strewn about the quarry.

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 23536: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Allison Tuell on 16.07.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Psilophytopsida
 Psilophytales - Psilophytaceae
Taeniocrada
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Drepanophycus
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Drepanophycus spinaeformis
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Drepanophycus spinaeformis Goeppert 1852
listed in Gerrienne, 1993
Sporogonites exuberans
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