Les Bulants Buildup, Neuville (Devonian of Belgium)

Also known as Reef 1358

Where: Namur, Belgium (50.2° N, 4.5° E: paleocoordinates 22.1° S, 5.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Petit Mont Member (Neuville Formation), Late/Upper Frasnian (379.5 - 376.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified floatstone

• facies PM3

•stromatactis, coral, stromatoporoid floatstones

•pink limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section

• not in list: crinoids, brachiopods

Primary reference: F. Boulvain. 2007. Frasnian carbonate mounds from Belgium: sedimentology and palaeoceanography. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 275:125-142 [W. Kiessling/F. Reichel/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 76637: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Falko Reichel on 27.11.2007, edited by Uta Merkel

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Senceliaepora sp.
Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella sp.
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
Rothpletzella
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Rothpletzella sp.
Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Thecostegitidae
Thecostegites sp.
Thecostegites sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolites sp.
Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Thamnopora sp.
Thamnopora sp. Steininger 1831 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Phillipsastreidae
Phillipsastrea sp., Thamnophyllum sp., Frechastraea glabra n. sp.
Phillipsastrea sp. d'Orbigny 1849 horn coral
Thamnophyllum sp. Penecke 1894 horn coral
Frechastraea glabra n. sp. Coen-Aubert 2012 horn coral
Chlorophyceae
  - Receptaculitidae
Receptaculites sp.
Receptaculites sp. Defrance 1827