HLV-5, Habay-la-Vieille V (Triassic of Belgium)

Where: Gaume, Belgium (49.7° N, 5.6° E: paleocoordinates 36.3° N, 7.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sables de Mortinsart Formation, Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; pebbly, brown, silty sandstone and fine-grained, brown, yellow sandstone

• lithofacies at the entire section represent subtidal and littoral desposits
• Delsate 1995/6: fine yellow-brown sandstone, terminated by a 1-cm limonite crust. Next 30 cm a brown silty sandstone with black quartzite pebbles at base; vertebrate remains associated with pebbles.

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by Duffin, Coupatez, Lepage & Wouters in 1983

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: C. J. Duffin, P. Coupatez, J. C. Lepage and G. Wouters. 1983. Rhaetian (Upper Triassic) marine faunas from "Le Golfe du Luxembourg" in Belgium (preliminary note). Bulletin de la Société Belge de Géologie 92(4):311-315 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 139198: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.02.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
  -
Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768 reptile
 Saurischia -
 Ichthyosauria - Ichthyosauridae
Ichthyosaurus sp. Koenig 1818 ichthyosaur
Osteichthyes
 Saurichthyiformes - Saurichthyidae
Saurichthys longidens Agassiz 1843 ray-finned fish
Gnathostomata
  -
Actinopterygii indet. ray-finned fish
"sub-Holostei" teeth and scales
Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Palaeoniscidae
Gyrolepis albertii Agassiz 1834
 Palaeonisciformes - Birgeriidae
Birgeria acuminata Agassiz 1843
Actinopteri
 Semionotiformes - Semionotidae
Sargodon tomicus Plieninger 1847
Chondrichthyes
 Ctenacanthiformes - Ctenacanthidae
Ctenacanthidae indet. Dean 1909 elasmobranch
scales
 Synechodontiformes -
"Hybodus minor" = Rhomphaiodon minor
"Hybodus minor" = Rhomphaiodon minor Agassiz 1837 elasmobranch
 Synechodontiformes - Palaeospinacidae
Nemacanthus monilifer Agassiz 1836 elasmobranch
 Selachii -
Selachii indet. shark
placoid scales
 Euselachii -
Hybodontiformes indet. Patterson 1966 elasmobranch
fin spines, scales
 Hybodontiformes -
"Acrodus minimus" = Lissodus minimus
"Acrodus minimus" = Lissodus minimus Agassiz 1839 elasmobranch
 Hybodontiformes - Polyacrodontidae
Polyacrodus cloacinus Quenstedt 1858 elasmobranch
 Hybodontiformes - Pseudodalatiidae
Pseudodalatias barnstonensis Sykes 1971 elasmobranch