Le Recif de la Roquelle, Baubigny, Normandie (Devonian of France)

Also known as Reef 1557

Where: Basse-Normandie, France (49.4° N, 1.8° W: paleocoordinates 45.2° S, 37.0° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nehou Formation, Pragian (410.8 - 407.6 Ma)

• Upper Pragian (upper Siegenian)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone and shale

• 15-20 m thick bioherm with stromatopores, corals (only tabulates), bryozoans and algae.

•Zonation: Brachiopod layer at base

•Globulat stromatoporoids and tabulate corals

•Massive stromatoporoids at top.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section

Primary reference: J. Poncet. 1972. Les biohermes éodévoniens de l'Horizon récifal de Baubigny (Manche) Étude d'un paléomilieu. Bulletin Bureau Recherches Geologique Mineralogie, 2nd Ser., Sec. 4 3:43-65 [G. Webster/G. Webster]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 78171: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Falko Reichel on 30.01.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Catena friata Maslov 1956
 Dasycladales - Diploporaceae
Sphaerocodium
  -
Renalcis
  - Chabakoviacea
Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Demospongiae
 Tabulospongida -
Anthozoa
 Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
Heliolites sp. Dana 1846 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Micheliniidae
Pleurodictyum sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Cryptophyllidae
Cryptophyllus sp. Levinson 1951 ostracod
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
"Schizophoria provulvaria" = Schizophoria (Rhenoschizophoria) provulvaria
"Schizophoria provulvaria" = Schizophoria (Rhenoschizophoria) provulvaria Mauer 1886