Carriere de la Parisienne (Thin Basal Limestone, first collection) (Devonian of France)

Where: France (48.9° N, 2.3° E: paleocoordinates 25.3° S, 20.3° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Calcaire de Ferques Formation, Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, argillaceous carbonate

Collection methods: bulk

• fossils preserved on 1 cm thick slabs

Primary reference: P. Wallace. 1978. Homeomorphy between Devonian brachiopod communities in France and Iowa. Lethaia 11:259-272 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3399: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 31.07.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• abundances illustrated in histogram but not given numerically
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Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Ripidiorhynchus ferquensis
 Spiriferida - Cyrtospiriferidae
Cyrtospirifer verneuli, Tenticospirifer tenticulum
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Spinatrypa aspera, Spinatrypa explanata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Athyris concentrica
Athyris concentrica von Buch 1834
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Schizophoria striatula
Schizophoria striatula von Schlotheim 1813
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Douvillinidae
Douvillina sp.
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Chonetes sp.
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830
 Productida - Productellidae
Productella subaculeata
Productella subaculeata Murchison 1840
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
"fenestrate bryozoans"
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Disphyllidae
Disphyllum sp.
Disphyllum sp. Fromentel 1861 horn coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Thamnopora sp.
Thamnopora sp. Steininger 1831 tabulate coral
originally entered as "Thamnophora sp."