Quarry L'Ecluse d'Evieux-Esneux (Devonian of Belgium)

Where: Namur, Belgium (50.5° N, 5.6° E: paleocoordinates 17.1° S, 4.8° 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, blue, sandy sandstone

• There are several beds. The lowest is dark, sandy, bluish psammite. It contains voluminous traces of axes.

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 32272: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Pat Gensel on 17.06.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bacillariophyceae
 Naviculales - Pinnulariaceae
 Rhacophytales -
Sphenocyclopteridium belgicum
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Zosterophyllopsida
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Equisetopsida
 Sphenophyllales -
Archaeopteridopsida
 Archaeopteridales - Archaeopteridaceae
Lepidocarpopsida
 Jurinodendrales - Jurinodendraceae
Sphenopteridae
  - Sphenopteridae