Nonceveux, Belgium (Devonian of Belgium)

Where: Liege?, Belgium (50.5° N, 5.7° E: paleocoordinates 25.1° S, 2.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: spore assemblage zone MN zone, Bois d'Ausse Sandstone Formation, Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

• The horizons are labeled from top to bottom. Fossils come mostly from zone 3.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; micaceous, black, blue shale and gray, green schist

• Horizon #4 is shistose, micaceous, greenish and somewhat hard. Horizon #3 is phyllaceous shale; fine grained, blue to black transitioning to base into green mica. #2 is gray schist, micaeous greenish nodules. #1 is psammatic ss, gray to green.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: current dating is by Steemans, 1989

Primary reference: S. Leclercq. 1942. Quelques plantes fossiles recueillies dans le Devonien inferieur des environs de Nonceveux (Bordure orientale du bassin de Dinant). Annales de la Societe Geologique de Belgique 65(7):193-211 [P. Gensel/M. Kotyk]more details

PaleoDB collection 11722: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Allison Tuell on 03.09.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Plantae "axis fragments" Haeckel 1866
structure preserved
Plantae "axis fragments" Haeckel 1866
carrying two ovoid structures
Plantae "large axis fragments" Haeckel 1866
like trunks
"Plantaeanimalia" indet.
plant or animal?; pedicellate organ
Hostinella
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Hostinella sp. Barrande 1882
Taeniocrada
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Zosterophyllum
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? Zosterophyllum spp. Penhallow 1892
possible axes of many species
Bivalvia
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae