Eurypterids at Pont-de-Bonne-Modave (Devonian of Belgium)

Where: Namur, Belgium (50.5° N, 5.3° E: paleocoordinates 17.3° S, 4.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Evieux Formation (Condroz Group), Late/Upper Famennian (364.7 - 360.7 Ma)

• Bed E of psammites du Condroz;

•assigned to Assise d’Evieux (Mourlon 1902); stage Fa 2c by Stockmans (1948)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, green shale

• Schistes vert

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: J. Fraipont. 1889. Euryptérides nouveaux du Dévonien supérieur de Belgique (Psammites du Condroz). Annales de la Société Géologique de Belgique 17:53-62 [R. Plotnick/R. Plotnick]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 225613: authorized by Roy Plotnick, entered by Roy Plotnick on 19.05.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Euchelicerata
 Eurypterida - Hibbertopteridae
Cyrtoctenus dewalquei Fraipont 1889 eurypterid
 Eurypterida - Adelophthalmidae
Adelophthalmus lohesti Dewalque 1889 eurypterid
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Spirorbis indet. Daudin 1800
Osteichthyes
 Dipnomorpha - Holoptychiidae
Holoptychius dewalquei lobe-finned fish
Glyptolepis multistriatus lobe-finned fish
Glyptolepis radians lobe-finned fish