Sample Z2 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: Trois - Fontaines Formation, Early/Lower Givetian (388.1 - 383.7 Ma)

• lower Givetian, Hanonet Fm

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; limestone and shale

• 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 70441: 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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unclassified
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Bipinnatus bipinnatus
Bipinnatus bipinnatus
Bipinnatus bipinnatus bipinnatus
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Meristidae
Dicamara scalprum
 Spiriferida - Reticulariidae
"Gerolsteinites givefex" = Undispirifer
"Gerolsteinites givefex" = Undispirifer
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Polygnathidae
Polygnathus linguiformis
Polygnathus linguiformis Hinde 1879 conodont
Polygnathus linguiformis linguiformis