Durbuy 5337, Biron (Devonian of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (50.3° N, 5.5° E: paleocoordinates 21.6° S, 6.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: rhenana conodont zone, Barvaux Formation, Late/Upper Frasnian (379.5 - 376.1 Ma)

• Upper Rhenana Zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified shale

• purplish to green shale with some sandy layers and nodules

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. Mottequin. 2008. Late Middle Frasnian to Early Famennian (Late Devonian) strophomenid, orthotetid, and athyridid brachiopods from southern Belgium. Journal of Paleontology 82(6):1052-1073 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92828: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.12.2009

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
 Strophomenida - Douvillinidae
Douvillina area n. sp. Mottequin 2008