Carrière do Clypot, Neufville-lez-Soignies, (Carboniferous of Belgium)

Also known as Carrière do Clypot, Neufville-lez-Soignies, Belgium, Tn 3cCarrière do Clypot, Neufville-lez-Soignies, Belgium, Tn 3c

Where: Hainaut, Belgium (50.6° N, 4.0° E: paleocoordinates 12.9° S, 4.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Malon-Fontaine Formation, Ivorian (353.8 - 346.7 Ma)

• Late Tournaisian, Tn 3c; originally given as "Carboniferous limestone"; however, Tn 3c in the Clypot Quarry is now Malon-Fontaine.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: trilobites only

Primary reference: G. Hahn, R. Hahn, and C. Brauckmann. 1982. Die Trilobiten des belgischen Kohlenkalkes (Unter-Karbon). 4. Phillipsia. Geologica et Palaeontologica 16:163-182 [D. Korn/D. Korn/D. Korn]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 37319: authorized by Dieter Korn, entered by Daniela Liebsch on 10.03.2004, edited by Dieter Korn

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Phillipsia (Phillipsia) ornata Portlock 1843 trilobite
Phillipsia (Phillipsia) ornata belgica