Rebreuve, France (Devonian of France)

Where: Lys Valley, France (50.3° N, 2.3° E: paleocoordinates 28.1° S, 2.1° 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: argillaceous sandstone

• argillaceous lenses in white sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collection methods: quarrying,

• first described by P. Corsin (1933)

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 28207: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Caroline Bernard on 29.01.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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"Articulale" "indet."
unidentifiable serile axis
Sporogonites exuberans
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Sciadophyton
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Zosterophyllum
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Zosterophyllum artesianum n. sp.
axes and sporangia not attached, genus ID uncertain
Psilophytopsida
 Psilophytales - Psilophytaceae
Psilophyton "sp." Dawson 1859
Psilophyton princeps Dawson 1859
vegetative, possibly Sawdonia
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Taeniocrada
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Hostinella
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"Hostimella "sp."" = Hostinella
"Hostimella "sp."" = Hostinella Barrande 1882
Drepanophycus spinaeformis
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Drepanophycus spinaeformis Goeppert 1852
figured only; listed by Corsin (1933)
Yarravia
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Yarravia minor n. sp.
ID questionable
Hexactinellida
 Lychniscosa - Callodictyonidae
Cyclostigma "sp." Schrammen 1912 glass sponge
genus ID questionable, preservation poor.