Tournai (Carboniferous of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (50.6° N, 3.4° E: paleocoordinates 13.0° S, 3.9° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Calcaire de Premier Formation, Ivorian (353.8 - 346.7 Ma)

• Formation uncertain. Premier favored, although could be Calcaire d'Providence or d'Allain as well. PJW: Was Kinderhookian, but that is North American. Premier is put in Ivorian these days.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray limestone

• dark gray, coarse grained, crinoidal limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: D. B. Macurda. 1967. The Lower Carboniferous (Tournaisian) blastoids of Belgium. Journal of Paleontology 41(2):455-485 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7370: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 23.05.2000

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Taxonomic list

• blastoids only
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Blastoidea
 Granatocrinida - Granatocrinidae
Mesoblastus crenulatus
Mesoblastus crenulatus Roemer 1851 blastoid
 Fissiculata - Orophocrinidae
Orophocrinus orbignyanus, Katoblastus konincki n. sp., Katoblastus puzos n. gen.
Orophocrinus orbignyanus de Koninck 1842 blastoid
Katoblastus konincki n. sp. Macurda 1967 blastoid
Katoblastus puzos n. gen. Von Munster 1843 blastoid
 Fissiculata - Phaenoschismatidae
Phaenoblastus caryophyllatus
Phaenoblastus caryophyllatus de Koninck and Le Hon 1854 blastoid