Sample U of the Hanonet Fm, in La Couvinoise Quarry (Devonian of Belgium)

Where: Namur, Belgium (50.1° N, 4.5° E: paleocoordinates 24.4° S, 6.5° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hanonet Formation, Early/Lower Givetian (388.1 - 383.7 Ma)

• lower Givetian, Hanonet Fm

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; limestone

• a local sheltered, shallow marine environment inshore of crinoid and coral banks, Copper's biotope 1

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: P. Bultynck and C. Hollevoet. 1999. The Eifelian-Givetian boundary and Struve's Middle Devonian Great Gap in the Couvin area (Ardennes, southern Belgium). Senckenbergiana lethaea 79(1):3-11 [A. Miller/J. Sessa/A. Miller]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 70434: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 22.03.2007

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Taxonomic list

• Spinatrypid and stringocephalid brachiopods were identified by W. Struve in 1987. M. Coen-Aubert identified the rugose corals. A = abundant, C = common, R = rare.
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Anthozoa
 Tabulata -
Tabulata indet.
Tabulata indet. tabulate coral
branched and laminar tabulates
 Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
Heliolites sp.
Heliolites sp. Dana 1846 tabulate coral
 Cystiphyllida - Goniophyllidae
Calceola sp.
Calceola sp. Lamarck 1799 horn coral
 Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
Acanthophyllum vermiculare
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
Scutellum sp.
Scutellum sp. Pusch 1833 trilobite