Fondry des Chiens bioherm, Nismes (Devonian to of Belgium)

Also known as Reef 2375

Where: Belgium (50.1° N, 4.6° E: paleocoordinates 24.9° S, 6.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Trois Fontaines Formation, Eifelian to Eifelian (393.3 - 382.7 Ma)

• Eifelian-Givetian transition beds, base and flanks of the bioherm: Hanonet Formation, bioherm: Trois Fontaines Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified rudstone and lithified framestone

• biohermal lens, 64 m thick, with stromatoporoid-coral rudstones and framestones, flanking beds: grainstones, floatstones and coverstones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Preat, S. Blockmans, L. Capette, V. Dumoulin, and B. Mamet. 2007. Microfacies d'une lentille biohermale a la limite Eifelien/Givetien (Fondry des Chiens, Nismes, bord sud du synclinorium de Dinant) [Microfacies of a biohermal lens at the Eifelian/Givetian transition (Fondry des Chiens, Nismes, southern border of the Dinant Basin]. Geologica Belgica 10:3-25 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 84298: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.10.2008

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Udoteaceae
Foraminifera
 Fusulinina - Bisphaeridae
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Stromatopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporellida - Stromatoporellidae
Stromatoporella sp. Nicholson 1886 stromatoporoid sponge
 Actinostromatida - Actinostromatidae
Actinostroma sp. Nicholson 1886 stromatoporoid sponge
 Syringostromatida - Syringostromatidae
Parallelopora sp. Bargatzky 1881 stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Tabulata -
Tabulata indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 tabulate coral
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 horn coral
 Stauriida - Fasciphyllidae
Fasciphyllum sp. Schlüter 1885 horn coral
 Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
Neomphyma sp. Soshkina 1937 horn coral
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily