Field west of Les Noces, Limestone Facies of Schistes de Beaulieu (Devonian of France)

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

• normal marine fauna, lagoon has been breached so normal salinity
• thin fossiliferous limestone overylying dolomite facies

•- 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
 Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
 Spiriferida -
Spiriferida indet. Waagen 1883
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Howellella sp. Kozlowski 1946
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Reticulariidae
 Spiriferida - Cyrtospiriferidae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Athyris concentrica von Buch 1834
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanellidae indet. Schuchert 1913
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Schizophoria striatula von Schlotheim 1813
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Douvillinidae
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Anthozoa
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet. horn coral
 Stauriida - Disphyllidae
Disphyllum sp. Fromentel 1861 horn coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Thamnopora sp. Steininger 1831 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporoidea -
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge