Matringhem (Pas-de-Calais) (Devonian of France)

Where: France (50.6° N, 2.2° E: paleocoordinates 27.9° S, 1.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Devonian (419.2 - 393.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; argillaceous sandstone

• Geological information from Gosselet & Dolle (1910)
• soft, white, lenticular, argillaceous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: quarrying, chemical, mechanical,

• first described by P. Bertrand (1913)

Primary reference: P. Danze-Corsin. 1955. Contribution a l'etude des flores devoniennes du Nord de la France. I. - Flore eodevonienne de Matringhem. [Contribution to the Study of the Devonian Flora of Northern France. Part I - Eodevonian Flora of Matringhem.]. Extrait des Annales de la Societe Geologique du Nord 75:143-159 [P. Gensel/C. Bernard/C. Bernard]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 28038: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Caroline Bernard on 21.01.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cladoxylopsida
 Pseudosporochnales -
Calamophyton "sp." Krausel and Weyland
not Calamophyton. ID impossible, based largely on horizontal lines which are an artifact of preservation.
Aphyllopteris
  -
Rhabdophyton striatus
  -
Rhabdophyton striatus n. gen. n. sp.
Rhabdophyton striatus n. gen. n. sp. Danze-Corsin 1956
Psilophytopsida
 Psilophytales - Psilophytaceae
Psilophyton goldschmidtii
P. princeps Bertrand
Psilophyton "sp." Dawson 1859
  -
Dawsonites cf. arcuatus Halle 1916
group of sporangia
Hostinella
  -
"Hostimella "sp."" = Hostinella
"Hostimella "sp."" = Hostinella Barrande 1882
naked dichotomous axes
Drepanophycus
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