Bomel, Namur area, cryptalgal-bryozoan buildups (Carboniferous of Belgium)

Also known as Reef 2385

Where: Belgium (50.5° N, 4.9° E: paleocoordinates 9.2° S, 5.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lives Formation, Holkerian (346.7 - 340.0 Ma)

• Livian, sequence 0

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks and lithified packstone

• 4 small buildups: 2-3 m thick, 4-8 m across, 1 large buildup: 8 m thick, 50 m across. Corals occur at the base and as capping beds.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: A. S. Lauwers. 1992. Growth and diagenesis of cryptalgal-bryozoan buildups within a Mid-Visean (Dianantian) cyclic sequence, Belgium. Annales de la Societe Geologique de Belgique 115(1):187-213 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 76656: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.11.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Ortonella sp. Garwood 1914
Rhodophyceae
  - Aoujgaliaceae
Aoujgaliaceae indet. Termier and Vachard 1975
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales -
Sphaeroporella
  -
unclassified
  -
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Vermetidae
Vermetidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 worm shell
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Bryozoa
 Fenestellida -
Stenolaemata
 Rhabdomesida -
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
Siphonodendron martini Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 horn coral
unclassified
  -
Porifera indet. Grant 1836