Where: Alsace, France (50.8° N, 1.8° W: paleocoordinates 26.2° S, 19.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Schistes de Beaulieu Formation, Middle Frasnian (382.4 - 379.5 Ma)
• lower part of middle Frasnian
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; shelly/skeletal lime mudstone
•- calcilutite
Primary reference: P. Wallace. 1969. The sedimentology and palaeoecology of the Devonian of the Ferques inlier, northern France. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 125:83-124 [L. Ivany/L. Ivany]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 65765: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Linda Ivany on 25.09.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Rhynchonellidae indet. Gray 1848 | |
Spiriferida indet. Waagen 1883 | |
Howellella sp. Kozlowski 1946 | |
Athyris concentrica von Buch 1834 | |
Dalmanellidae indet. Schuchert 1913 | |
Schizophoria striatula von Schlotheim 1813 | |
Strophomenata | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Anthozoa | |
Rugosa indet. horn coral | |
Disphyllum sp. Fromentel 1861 horn coral | |
Thamnopora sp. Steininger 1831 tabulate coral | |
Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge |