Carriere Blanc Noir, Shale Facies of Schistes de Beaulieu (Devonian of France)

Where: Alsace, France (50.8° N, 1.8° W: paleocoordinates 26.2° S, 19.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Schistes de Beaulieu Formation, Middle Frasnian (382.4 - 379.5 Ma)

• lower part of middle Frasnian

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; intraclastic, gray, green, red, calcareous shale

• probably muddy facies in a hypersaline lagoon
• dark greyish red to greenish-grey; break easily into small blocks with cohchoidal fracture; some thin limestones near base, siltier toward top; some mud rip-ups

Primary reference: P. Wallace. 1969. The sedimentology and palaeoecology of the Devonian of the Ferques inlier, northern France. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 125:83-124 [L. Ivany/L. Ivany]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 65777: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Linda Ivany on 25.09.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet.
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida -
Spiriferida indet.
Spiriferida indet. Waagen 1883
 Spiriferida - Cyrtospiriferidae
Cyrtospirifer supradisjunctus
 Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
Leiorhynchus barroisi
Bivalvia
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
cf. Goniophora sp.
cf. Goniophora sp. Phillips 1848 clam
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Actinopteria dilatata
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Aviculopecten multicostata, Aviculopecten lineolata