Ferques, Griset Member, Bed 8, Pas-de-Calais (Devonian of France)

Where: France (50.8° N, 1.8° E: paleocoordinates 24.4° S, 4.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Griset Member (Blacourt Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• aka Bed M of Brice 1977

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. Mistiaen. 1980. Stromatopores du Givetien de Ferques (Boulonnais, France) [Givetian stromatoporoids from Ferques (Boulonnais, France)]. Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Section C 2(3):167-257 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71464: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.04.2007

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Taxonomic list

Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporellida - Stromatoporellidae
"Pseudostromatoporella sp." = Stromatoporella, Clathrocoilona spissa
"Pseudostromatoporella sp." = Stromatoporella Nicholson 1886 stromatoporoid sponge
Clathrocoilona spissa Lecompte 1951 stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporellida - Trupetostromatidae
Hermatostroma parksi stromatoporoid sponge
Hermatostroma cf. cimacense stromatoporoid sponge
Hermatostroma crassum stromatoporoid sponge
? Trupetostroma cf. bassleri stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporida - Ferestromatoporidae
? Ferestromatopora sp. Yavorsky 1955 stromatoporoid sponge
 Actinostromatida - Actinostromatidae
Actinostroma clathratum stromatoporoid sponge
? Actinostroma cf. devonense stromatoporoid sponge
Actinostroma septatum stromatoporoid sponge
subsp. robustum
 Syringostromatida - Stachyoditidae
Stachyodes verticillata stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Tienodictyidae
 Clathrodictyida - Anostylostromatidae
Anostylostroma cf. retiforme stromatoporoid sponge