Florule of Booze-Trembleur (Devonian of Belgium)

Where: Namur, Belgium (50.7° N, 5.7° E: paleocoordinates 16.9° 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, micaceous, gray, yellow, blue sandstone and lithified shale

• An escarpment with micaceous sandstone, gray-blue or yellowish, becoming brown or red by alteration, between which are intercalated, at different levels, psammites, shales, and "macignos."

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 32276: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Pat Gensel on 17.06.2003

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Taxonomic list

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Bacillariophyceae
 Naviculales - Pinnulariaceae
Pinnularia devonica
unclassified
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Phyllolepsis undulata
 Rhacophytales -
Rhacophyton condrusorum
Archaeopteridopsida
 Archaeopteridales - Archaeopteridaceae
Archaeopteris roemeriana
Condrusia rumex
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Condrusia rumex
Condrusia rumex Stockmans 1946
Sphenopteridae
  - Sphenopteridae
Sphenopteris flaccida, Sphenopteris boozensis, Sphenopteris mourloni
Osteichthyes
 Dipnomorpha - Holoptychiidae
Holoptychius flemingi
Holoptychius flemingi Agassiz 1844 lobe-finned fish
fish
 Dipteriformes - Dipteridae
Dipterus cf. nelsoni
Dipterus cf. nelsoni Newberry 1889 lungfish
fish