Roque Redonde hill (Carboniferous of France)

Where: France (43.6° N, 3.3° E: paleocoordinates 15.3° S, 11.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Roque Redonde Formation, Visean (346.7 - 330.9 Ma)

• upper Visean

Environment/lithology: limestone

• calm, low energy environment
• the horizon, which has yielded the bryozoans comprises thinner bedded, very coarse, skeletal limestones; shaly partings; texture ranges from wackestone to grainstone or floatstone and rudstone

Size class: macrofossils

• containing abundant crinoids, bryozoans, brachiopods, rugose and tabulate corals; gastropods, and ostracodes, a few foraminifers and calcareous algae

Primary reference: A. Ernst, P. N. W. Jackson, and M. Aretz. 2015. Bryozoan fauna from the Mississippian (Visean) of Roque Redonde (Montagne Noire, southern France). Geodiversitas 37(2):151-213 [B. Seuss/B. Seuss/B. Seuss]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 226674: authorized by Barbara Seuss, entered by Barbara Seuss on 20.07.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Stenolaemata
 Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
 Cystoporida - Cystodictyonidae
 Cystoporida - Sulcoreteporidae
 Cystoporida - Goniocladiidae
"Ramiporalia robusta" = Ramipora (Ramiporalia), Volgia deftera n. sp.
"Ramiporalia robusta" = Ramipora (Ramiporalia)
 Trepostomida - Dyscritellidae
 Trepostomida - Stenoporidae
 Fenestrata -
Fenestrata indet. Elias and Condra 1957
 Rhabdomesida - Rhomboporidae
 Rhabdomesida - Nikiforovellidae
 Rhabdomesida - Rhabdomesidae
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
 Cryptostomata - Septoporidae
Thamniscus colei
"Thamniscus" colei
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
 Cryptostomata - Arthrostylidae
Nematopora hibernica Wyse Jackson 1996
Pseudonematopora planatus Wyse Jackson 1996