La Boverie (Devonian of Belgium)

Where: Namur, Belgium (50.2° N, 5.2° E: paleocoordinates 22.6° S, 6.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: punctata to early rhenana conodont zone, ARche, La Boverie, Lion Member (Ermitage to Boussu en Fagnes Formation), Middle Frasnian (382.4 - 379.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, massive, lenticular, calcareous reef rocks and lithified, argillaceous, carbonaceous marl

• Mud mound succession, grainstone, packstone, framestone, boundstones, some marly intervals and some lagoonal facies

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: recrystallized, replaced with calcite

Collected by Da Silva Anne-Christine and Frédéric Boulvain in 2009

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, peel or thin section,

• Bed by bed sampling

Primary reference: A.-C. Da Silva, S. Kershaw, and F. Boulvain. 2011. Sedimentology and stromatoporoid palaeoecology of Frasnian (Upper Devonian) carbonate mounds in southern Belgium. Lethaia 44:255-274 [A.-C. da Silva/A.-C. da Silva/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 158156: authorized by Anne-Christine da Silva, entered by Anne-Christine da Silva on 16.07.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Stromatoporoidea
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Stromatoporoidea indet. Nicholson and Murie 1878 stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporellida - Idiostromatidae
Idiostroma sp. Winchell 1867 stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporellida - Stromatoporellidae
Clathrocoilona sp. Yavorsky 1931 stromatoporoid sponge
Stictostroma sp. Parks 1936 stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporellida - Trupetostromatidae
Trupetostroma sp. Parks 1936 stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Atelodictyidae
Atelodictyon sp. Lecompte 1951 stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporida - Syringostromellidae
Salairella sp. Khalfina 1961 stromatoporoid sponge
 Amphiporida - Amphiporidae
Euryamphipora sp. Klovan 1966 stromatoporoid sponge
Amphipora sp. Schulz 1883 stromatoporoid sponge
 Syringostromatida - Stachyoditidae
Stachyodes sp. Bargatzky 1881 stromatoporoid sponge
Stachyodes australe stromatoporoid sponge
 Actinostromatida - Actinostromatidae
Actinostroma sp. Nicholson 1886 stromatoporoid sponge