Where: Namur, Belgium (50.6° N, 5.9° E: paleocoordinates 16.9° S, 4.9° 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 shale and lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, original carbon

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Certain taxa are located only in a particular bed or place; e.g. Archaeopteris roemeriana is only found to the right side, north of the trench. Rhacophyton condrusorum is present on both sides, but in different beds. Sphenocyclopteridium is only found on the right side, at the same place as Rhacophyton condrusorum, Sphenopteris modavensis and numerous fish remains.

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 32279: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Pat Gensel on 17.06.2003

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