Sample U of the Hanonet Fm, in La Couvinoise Quarry: Early/Lower Givetian, Belgium
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Cystiphyllida
- Goniophyllidae
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Calceola sp.
Lamarck 1799
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R category | |||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Ptenophyllidae
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Acanthophyllum vermiculare
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R category | |||||||||
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Anthozoa
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Tabulata indet.
(Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850)
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| branched and laminar tabulates | ||||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Heliolitida
- Heliolitidae
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Heliolites sp.
Dana 1846
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Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Styginidae
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Scutellum sp.
Pusch 1833
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R category | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Belgium | State/province: | Namur | County: | Couvin |
| Coordinates: | 50.1° North, 4.5° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 24.4° South, 6.5° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Devonian | Epoch: | Middle Devonian |
| Stage: | Givetian | 10 m.y. bin: | Devonian 3 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Givetian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 387.70000 - 385.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Hanonet | ||||
| Local section: | La Couvinoise Quarry | Local bed: | U | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: lower Givetian, Hanonet Fm | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Environment: | lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal |
| Geology comments: a local sheltered, shallow marine environment inshore of crinoid and coral banks, Copper's biotope 1 | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | difficult macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:Spinatrypid and stringocephalid brachiopods were identified by W. Struve in 1987. M. Coen-Aubert identified the rugose corals. A = abundant, C = common, R = rare. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 70434 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | J. Sessa |
| Modifier: | J. Sessa | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-03-22 12:34:23 | Last modified: | 2015-05-22 16:32:54 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-03-22 12:34:23 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 23579. | P. Bultynck and C. Hollevoet. 1999. The Eifelian-Givetian boundary and Struve's Middle Devonian Great Gap in the Couvin area (Ardennes, southern Belgium). Senckenbergiana lethaea 79(1):3-11 [A. Miller/J. Sessa/A. Miller] |