PBDB Collection

Pauquys (Carboniferous of Belgium)

Where: Namur, Belgium (50.2° N, 4.9° E: paleocoordinates 13.1° S, 5.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Polygnathus communis conodont zone, Lower Member (Waulsort Formation), Ivorian (353.8 - 346.7 Ma)

• Late Tournaisian, Tn 3; was Carboniferous Limestone; Godefroid et al. 2006 note that this is from the lower half of the formation.

Environment/lithology: lithified wackestone

• A spar-rich facies (including the "veines bleues" of early authors) which is typical of the lower and middle part of the buildups. Some sparry masses represent

•cavity fillings, including voids formed after decay of soft-bodied organisms (and sometimes modified subsequently by local collapse and dissolution) as well as

•fracture fillings. Other sparry fabrics were formed by neomorphism. The matrix material surrounding the sparry masses is predominantly wackestone.

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•A rich macrofauna of brachiopods and molluscs is common in the spar-rich facies (Demanet, 1958). Microbial processes probably played an important role in producing and fixing the carbonate muds.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: trilobites only

Primary reference: G. Hahn, R. Hahn, and C. Brauckmann. 1982. Die Trilobiten des belgischen Kohlenkalkes (Unter-Karbon). 4. Phillipsia. Geologica et Palaeontologica 16:163-182 [D. Korn/D. Korn/D. Korn]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 37243: authorized by Dieter Korn, entered by Daniela Liebsch on 09.03.2004, edited by Dieter Korn and Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
Murchisoniina - Porcelliidae	"Agnesia discrepans n. sp." = Pauquysia discrepans¹ "Agnesia discrepans n. sp." = Pauquysia discrepans¹ de Koninck 1883 snail
Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae	"Ptychomphalus pisum n. sp." = Mourlonia pisa¹, "Ptychomphalus agassizi n. sp." = Mourlonia agassizi¹ "Ptychomphalus pisum n. sp." = Mourlonia pisa¹ de Koninck 1883 snail "Ptychomphalus agassizi n. sp." = Mourlonia agassizi¹ de Koninck 1883 snail
Cerithimorpha - Orthonemidae	"Murchisonia acuminata n. sp." = Stegocoelia (Hypergonia) acuminata¹ "Murchisonia acuminata n. sp." = Stegocoelia (Hypergonia) acuminata¹ de Koninck 1883 snail
Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae	"Bellerophon umbilicatus" = Teutonophon umbilicatus³, "Bucaniopsis exilis" = Retispira exilis³, "Bellerophon pinguis" = Waagenella pinguis³, Bellerophon sulcatulus³, Bellerophon demaneti³ "Bellerophon umbilicatus" = Teutonophon umbilicatus³ Potiez and Michaud 1838 snail "Bucaniopsis exilis" = Retispira exilis³ de Koninck 1883 snail "Bellerophon pinguis" = Waagenella pinguis³ de Koninck 1883 snail Bellerophon sulcatulus³ de Koninck 1883 snail Bellerophon demaneti³ Weir 1931 snail
Euomphalina - Euomphalidae	Phanerotinus intermedius n. sp.¹ Phanerotinus intermedius n. sp.¹ de Koninck 1883 snail
Trilobita
Proetida - Phillipsiidae	Paladin (Paladin) borvo², Phillipsia kellyi Paladin (Paladin) borvo² trilobite Phillipsia kellyi Portlock 1843 trilobite Phillipsia kellyi arduinna n. ssp.

¹de Koninck 1883; ²Hahn et al. 1986; ³Weir 1931