Celles (Carboniferous of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (50.0° N, 4.0° E: paleocoordinates 13.5° S, 4.5° E)

When: Waulsort Formation, Ivorian (353.8 - 346.7 Ma)

• Late Tournaisian; PJW: originally given as "Carboniferous Limestone" but it should be either Waulsort or [Yvoir, Ourthe or Leffe] given Brenkle & Hance 2005 (Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 1111(2):197-214). I am going with Waulsort because Hahn & Hahn (1988) call it Waulsortian.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: trilobites only

Primary reference: G. Hahn, R. Hahn, and C. Brauckmann. 1983. Die Trilobiten des belgischen Kohlenkalkes (Unter-Karbon). 5. Griffithides und Cyphinioides. Geologica et Palaeontologica 17:109-135 [D. Korn/D. Korn/D. Korn]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 37124: authorized by Dieter Korn, entered by Dieter Korn on 03.03.2004, edited by Daniela Liebsch and Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Proetida - Brachymetopidae
Brachymetopus sucellus1 trilobite
Brachymetopus sucellus sucellus
"Brachymetopus spinimarginatus" = Brachymetopus maccoyi spinimarginatus3 Hahn and Hahn 1969 trilobite
Brachymetopus maccoyi spinimarginatus
 Proetida - Proetidae
"Proetus (Pudoproetus) cellesensis" = Pudoproetus2
"Proetus (Pudoproetus) cellesensis" = Pudoproetus2 trilobite
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Bollandia (Bollandia) epona3 trilobite
Bollandia (Bollandia) frechi epona
Griffithides (Griffithides) belenus3 trilobite
Griffithides (Griffithides) longispinus belenus