Waulsort, Waulsortian buildups (Carboniferous of Belgium)

Also known as Reef 360

Where: Belgium (50.2° N, 4.9° E: paleocoordinates 13.1° S, 5.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ivorian (353.8 - 346.7 Ma)

• Basal Ivorian-Lower Moliniacian, just below the basal Visean

•JA: originally entered as Tournaisian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Lees and Miller 1985 buildup phases A to D
• 4 Waulsortian buildups

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: J. A. Dehantschutter and A. Lees. 1996. Waulsortian buildups of Waulsort, Belgium. Geological Journal 31:123-142 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 76920: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.12.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Rhodophyceae
  - Aoujgaliaceae
Aoujgaliaceae indet. Termier and Vachard 1975
Foraminifera
 Tetrataxoidea - Tetrataxidae
Tetrataxidae indet. Galloway 1933
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
 Fusulinina - Palaeospiroplectamminidae
 Fusulinina - Pseudoammodiscidae
 Fusulinina - Earlandiidae
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Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Rostroconchia
 Conocardiida - Conocardiidae
Conocardium sp. Bronn 1835
Cephalopoda
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Cephalopoda indet. Cuvier 1797
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Trilobita
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Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
unclassified
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Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Anthozoa
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet. horn coral
 Stauriida - Amplexidae
Amplexus sp. Sowerby 1814 horn coral
 Tabulata -
Tabulata indet. tabulate coral
Porostromata
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