La Gileppe, Affleurement B (Devonian of Belgium)

Also known as Gileppe

Where: Liege, Belgium (50.0° N, 6.0° E: paleocoordinates 27.1° S, 4.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Grès du Bois d'Ausse Formation, Early/Lower Devonian (419.2 - 393.3 Ma)

• age for this cut is based on spores- Biozone BZ of Steemans 1982a and b, Richardsonet al.1981 and this is Gedinnian or upper Lochhovian or lower Pragian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, blue shale and lithified sandstone

• red psammitic shales (schistes in French), sometimes containing carbonate nodules, of larger sandstones, and at some levels of blue "schistes" . Elsewhere indicated that plants listed here come from the blue shale

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: P. Steemans and P. Gerrienne. 1984. La micro- et macroflore du Dedinnien de la Gileppe, Synclinorium de la Vesdre, Belgique. Annales de la Societe Geologique de Belgique 107:51-71 [P. Gensel/P. Gensel/P. Gensel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 34965: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Pat Gensel on 21.10.2003

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Pachytheca indet.
probably alga
Psilophytopsida
 Psilophytales -
Prototaxites
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Prototaxites indet. Dawson 1859
probably alga