Engihoul Quarry, sequence 0, microbe-bryozoan patch reef (Carboniferous of Belgium)

Also known as Reef 3562

Where: Belgium (50.6° N, 5.4° E: paleocoordinates 9.1° S, 5.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Corphalie Member (Lives Formation), Holkerian (346.7 - 340.0 Ma)

• Livian, Cf5 foraminifera zone, RC6 rugose coral zone, sequence 0

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• microbe-bryozoan patch reef, 2 m high, 5 m across

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: E. Chevalier and M. Aretz. 2005. A microbe-bryozoan reef from the Middle Visean of the Namur Syncline (Engihoul Quarry). Geologica Belgica 8:109-119 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 76654: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.11.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita sp. Brown 1849
Bryozoa
 Fenestellida -
Stenolaemata
 Rhabdomesida -
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Vermetidae
Vermetidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 worm shell
vermetids or annelids
Anthozoa
  -
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
Demospongiae
 Chaetetida - Chaetetidae
Chaetetidae indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 chaetetid sponge
Porostromata
  -
Cyanophyceae
  - Aphralysiaceae
Aphralysia sp. Garwood 1914
Osagia
  -
"Osagia" sp. Twenhofel 1919
Dasycladophyceae
  - Palaeoberesellidae