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
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 | |
Psilophyton princeps Dawson 1859 | |
Taeniocrada | |
Taeniocrada sp. White 1902 | |
Drepanophycus | |
Drepanophycus aff. gaspianus Dawson 1859 | |
Drepanophycus spinaeformis | |
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Sporogonites exuberans | |
Sporogonites exuberans Halle 1916 |