Where: Belgium (50.4° N, 5.0° E: paleocoordinates 48.2° S, 9.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Spinachitina fossensis other zone, Faulx-les-Tombes Member (Fosses Formation), Rawtheyan (448.8 - 445.2 Ma)
• Middle Beds. Given as middle beds of Upper Half. NOTE: Spinachitina fossensis is not found here, but there beds are between the Conochitina rugata and Bursachitina umbilicata zones. Faulx-les-Tombes member overlies Bois de Presles member of Fosses. Fosses overlies Vitrival-Bruyère Formation.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithified, green, sandy shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Collected by P. J. Lespérance in 1974
Primary reference: P. J. Lespérance and P. M. Sheehan. 1987. Trilobites et Brachiopodes ashgilliens (Ordovicien supérieur) de l'"Assise" de Fosse, Bande de Sambre-Meuse (Belgique). Bulletin-Institut royal des sciences naturelles de Belgique. Sciences de la terre 57:91-123 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 192762: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 18.04.2018
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Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Illaenus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
Stenopareia cf. glabra trilobite
Stenopareia sp. Holm 1886 trilobite | |
Panderia sp. Volborth 1863 trilobite | |
Prionocheilus sp. Rouault 1847 trilobite | |
Sambremeusaspis fossesensis n. gen. n. sp.
Sambremeusaspis fossesensis n. gen. n. sp. Lespérance and Sheehan 1987 trilobite | |
Encrinurus sp. Emmrich 1844 trilobite
Atractopyge "non belgica" Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
Atractopyge belgica trilobite
Cybeloides sp. Slocum 1913 trilobite | |
Sphaerexochus sp. Beyrich 1845 trilobite | |
Tretaspis hadelandica Stormer 1945 trilobite | |
Platylichas laxatus McCoy 1846 trilobite |