Railroad Cutting at Assesse (Devonian of Belgium)

Where: Namur, Belgium (50.4° N, 5.0° E: paleocoordinates 17.4° S, 4.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Evieux Formation, Late/Upper Famennian (364.7 - 360.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, green shale and lithified sandstone

• A very fine shale, olive, about 40 cm thick, shows narrow axes recalling those of Rhacophyton condrusorum, but called in this paper Sphenopteris flaccida. Immediately below, one finds brown psammite, folded, full of fragments of fertile Archaeopteris roemeriana.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, original carbon

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: F. Stockmans. 1948. Vegetaux du Devonien Superieur de la Belgique. Memoires du Musee Royal D'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 110:3-85 [P. Gensel/P. Gensel/P. Gensel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 32232: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Pat Gensel on 16.06.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Taxa listed not specified as to which lithology they are from, other than as commented above.
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Moresnetia zalesskyi
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Moresnetia zalesskyi
Moresnetia zalesskyi Stockmans 1946
Archaeopteridopsida
 Archaeopteridales - Archaeopteridaceae
Archaeopteris roemeriana
Aneurophytopsida
 Aneurophytales - Aneurophytaceae
Aneurophyton olnense
Sphenopteridae
  - Sphenopteridae
Sphenopteris flaccida
Condrusia rumex
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Condrusia rumex
Condrusia rumex Stockmans 1946