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