Ferques, Griset Member, Bed 13, Pas-de-Calais (Devonian of France)

Also known as Reef 1588

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 F of Brice 1976

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

• stromatolite-serpulid bioherm

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 71469: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.04.2007

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Taxonomic list

Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Stromatopora concentrica stromatoporoid sponge
Stromatopora cf. buecheliensis stromatoporoid sponge
? Stromatopora cf. laminosa stromatoporoid sponge
? Stromatopora planulata stromatoporoid sponge
"Stromatopora" colliculata stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporellida - Stromatoporellidae
Clathrocoilona spissa Lecompte 1951 stromatoporoid sponge
Stromatoporella laminata stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporellida - Trupetostromatidae
Hermatostroma cf. cimacense stromatoporoid sponge
Hermatostroma cf. pustulosum stromatoporoid sponge
Synthetostroma cf. actinostromoides Lecompte 1951 stromatoporoid sponge
 Syringostromatida - Stachyoditidae
Stachyodes verticillata stromatoporoid sponge
 Actinostromatida - Actinostromatidae
Actinostroma tabulatum stromatoporoid sponge
Actinostroma bifarium stromatoporoid sponge
Actinostroma stellulatum Nicholson 1885 stromatoporoid sponge
subsp. maureri