Puech de la Suque D/C boundary section, Tournaisian part (Carboniferous of France)
Where: Alsace, France (43.5° N, 3.1° E: paleocoordinates 19.3° S, 11.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)
• D/C boundary roughly between beds 10 and 11.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone
• Section mainly limestone. One major shale bed between limestone beds 9 and 10.
Primary reference: D. Korn. 1993. The ammonoid faunal change near the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary. Annales de la Societe geologique de Belgique 115(2):581-593 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 38668: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 28.04.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• Korn lists ammonoids only.
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Cephalopoda | |
Gattendorfia sp. Schindewolf 1920 ammonite
Acutimitoceras sp. Librovitch 1957 ammonite |