Plan Incline de Ronquieres (Devonian to of Belgium)

Where: Ronquieres, Belgium (50.0° N, 4.0° E: paleocoordinates 24.3° S, 6.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mazy Member (Bois de Bordeaux Formation), Givetian to Givetian (387.7 - 382.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, ferruginous, gray, yellow, sandy sandstone

• Sandy layers alternate with a red conglomerate.

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 32216: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Pat Gensel on 12.06.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Some identifications need reexamination.
unclassified
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Avelinesia antiqua
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Avelinesia antiqua Dawson 1871
Cladoxylopsida
 Pseudosporochnales -
Calamophyton primaevum Kraeusel and Weyland 1925
Ginkgophytopsis
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Aulacopteris
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Aulacopteris sp. Corda 1847
Prototaxites
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Prototaxites sp. Dawson 1859
Hoegia
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Runcaria heinzelinii
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Runcaria heinzelinii Stockmans 1968
Drepanophycus
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Psilophytopsida
 Psilophytales -
Serrulacaulis furcatus
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Protolepidodendron
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Protolepidodendron sharyanum
renamed Leclercquia by Fairon-Demaret, 1981
 Coenopteridales -
Sphenopteridae
  - Sphenopteridae
Lyginodendron
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Lyginodendron sp. Gourlie 1843
Protopteridium
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Lycopodiopsida
 Lycopodiales - Lycopodiaceae
Sulcocladus multipunctatus
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