Try-Coquia a Sart-Dame-Avelines (Devonian of Belgium)

Also known as Sart-Dame-Avelines

Where: Brabant, Belgium (50.0° N, 4.0° E: paleocoordinates 24.6° S, 6.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mazy Member (Fromelennes Formation), Middle Givetian (383.0 - 380.2 Ma)

• Age uncertain according to this paper.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, pebbly, pyritic, sandy shale

• Plants come from section D of Stockman's: \"Sandy shale with abundant plant remains; at certain places the rock is gritty and contains small round quartz pebbles and pyrite concretions."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, permineralized, original carbon, replaced with pyrite

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: F. Stockmans. 1968. Vegetaux Mesodevoniens Recoltes Aux Confins Du Massif Du Brabant (Belgique). Institut Royal Des Sciences Naturelles De Belgique, Memoire 159:3-49 [P. Gensel/P. Gensel/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 32214: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Pat Gensel on 12.06.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Some identifications require reexamination.
unclassified
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Protopteridium
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Sphenopteridae
  - Sphenopteridae
Thamnocladites vanopdenboschii
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Aneurophytopsida
 Aneurophytales - Aneurophytaceae
Reniera verrucosa
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Reniera verrucosa Stockmans 1968
round body with bumps
Avelinesia antiqua
  -
Avelinesia antiqua Dawson 1871
Psilophytopsida
 Psilophytales -
Wattieza givetiana Stockmans 1968
Niayssioidea belgica Stockmans 1968
Pseudosporochnus krejcii Potonie and Bernard 1903