Tournai (Carboniferous of Belgium)

Where: Wallonia, Belgium (50.6° N, 3.4° E: paleocoordinates 15.3° S, 3.5° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Siphonodella crenulata - Siphonodella isoticha conodont zone, Maurenne Formation, Hastarian (358.9 - 353.8 Ma)

• Given as T1ch by Weir, but Tn2C elsewhere; Calcaire d'Allain was another possibility. Was Calcaire de Maredsous. Cf1-gamma foram zone. RC2 coral zone. Siphonodella conodont zone.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• dark gray, coarse grained, crinoidal limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Weir. 1931. The British and Belgian Carboniferous Bellerophontidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 56(31):767-861 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 147213: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 06.07.2013

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Taxonomic list

• gastropods only
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Araeonematidae
"Turbo pygmaeus n. sp." = Yunnania pygmaeus2
"Turbo pygmaeus n. sp." = Yunnania pygmaeus2 de Koninck 1844 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
"Bellerophon umbilicatus" = Teutonophon umbilicatus, "Bucaniopsis elegans" = Retispira elegans, Bellerophon bicarenus, Bellerophon sublaevis3, "Bellerophon munsteri" = Waagenella muensteri
"Bellerophon umbilicatus" = Teutonophon umbilicatus Potiez and Michaud 1838 snail
"Bucaniopsis elegans" = Retispira elegans de Ferrusac and d'Orbigny 1840 snail
Bellerophon bicarenus Léveillé 1835 snail
includes Bellerophon bicarenus var. latifascia
Bellerophon sublaevis3 Potiez and Michaud 1838 snail
"Bellerophon munsteri" = Waagenella muensteri de Ferrusac and d'Orbigny 1840 snail
subspecies Bellerophon munsteri plicatus
 Bellerophontida - Euphemitidae
"Euphemus filosus n. sp." = Euphemites filosus1
"Euphemus filosus n. sp." = Euphemites filosus1 de Koninck 1883 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
Patellostium witryanum de Koninck 1843 snail
 Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
"Tropidocyclus duchastelii" = Sinuitina duchastelii
"Tropidocyclus duchastelii" = Sinuitina duchastelii Léveillé 1835 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
"Pleurotomaria radula n. sp." = Rhineoderma radula2
"Pleurotomaria radula n. sp." = Rhineoderma radula2 de Koninck 1844 snail