Royseux, Belgium (Carboniferous to of Belgium)

Also known as Reef 3069

Where: Belgium (50.5° N, 5.3° E: paleocoordinates 6.8° S, 8.1° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Anhee Formation, Asbian to Asbian (340.0 - 330.9 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm

• Coral bafflestone (biostrome)

Collection methods: quarrying

Primary reference: M. Aretz. 2001. The upper Viséan coral horizons of Royseux - the development of an unusual facies in Berlian Early Carboniferous. Bulletin of the Tohoku University Museum 1:86-95 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10699: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 04.06.2001

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Palaeosmiliidae
Koninckophyllum sp.
Koninckophyllum sp. Thomson and Nicholson 1876 horn coral
 Stauriida - Aulophyllidae
Aulophyllum fungites, Dibunophyllum bipartitum
Dibunophyllum bipartitum McCoy 1849 horn coral
 Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
Siphonodendron intermedium, Siphonodendron junceum, Siphonodendron martini, Siphonodendron pauciradiale, Diphyphyllum lateseptatum, Diphyphyllum sp.
Siphonodendron junceum Fleming 1828 horn coral
Up to 80 cm in diameter
Siphonodendron martini Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 horn coral
Up to 80 cm in diameter
Siphonodendron pauciradiale McCoy 1844 horn coral
Diphyphyllum sp. Lonsdale 1845 horn coral
 Heterocorallia - Heterophylliidae
Heterophyllia ornata