Quarry Les Forges in Marchin-Location A (Devonian to of Belgium)

Also known as Location at edge of small road

Where: Liege, Belgium (50.0° N, 5.0° E: paleocoordinates 27.9° S, 7.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• It is the AB zone of Steemans, 1989.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: gray, green sandstone

• Described as a green to grey shaly sandstone.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. Gerrienne. 1983. Les Plantes Emsiennes de Marchin (Vallee Du Hoyoux, Belgique). Annales de la Societe de Belgique 106:19-35 [P. Gensel/A. Tuell/A. Tuell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24038: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Allison Tuell on 29.07.2002

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Gosferia curvata, cf. Sawdonia ornata
Gosferia curvata
originally named Forgesia curvata
Zosterophyllum
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Zosterophyllum deciduum, Zosterophyllum cf. fertile
Zosterophyllum deciduum
in Gerrienne 1988 both Zosterophyllum sp are described as one.
Zosterophyllum cf. fertile
in Gerrienne 1988 both Zosterophyllum sp are described as one.
Psilophytopsida
 Psilophytales - Psilophytaceae
Psilophyton burnotense, Psilophyton cf. crenulatum, Psilophyton forbesii, Psilophyton "genseliae", Psilophyton "parvulum"
Psilophyton "genseliae" Dawson 1859
originally P. nov. 1
Psilophyton "parvulum" Dawson 1859
originally P. nov 2
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Dawsonites arcuatus
Krithodeophyton
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Krithodeophyton sp.
Krithodeophyton sp. Edwards 1968