Neuf Bonniers quarry (Carboniferous of Belgium)

Also known as Denée

Where: Belgium (50.3° N, 4.7° E: paleocoordinates 10.7° S, 5.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: MFZ9 - MFZ10 foram zone, Molignée Formation, Arundian (346.7 - 340.0 Ma)

• "The ‘black marble’ of Denée is now included in the Molignée Formation of Early Viséan age (Moliniacian; Mississippian Foraminifer Zone MFZ 9 to MFZ 10 according to Devuyst & Hance in Poty et al., 2006)"

•Moliniacian Regional Substage

Environment/lithology: lithified, black limestone

• It developed in a confined intra-platform basin (central part of the Dinant sedimentation area [DSA]) located south of the Brabant Massif (Fig. 1), which was progressively filled by distal calcareous turbidites originating from the southward prograding shelf
• "a succession of thin-bedded, commonly laminated black limestones (the typical ‘black marble’ facies) which alternate with thick-bedded, dark-grey limestones (‘thick beds’)"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: B. Mottequin, E. Poty, and C. Prestianni. 2015. Catalogue of the types and illustrated specimens recovered from the ‘black marble’ of Denée, a marine conservation-Lagerstätte from the Mississippian of southern Belgium. Geologica Belgica 18(1):1-14 [E. Dunne/S. Fasey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 228903: authorized by Emma Dunne, entered by Sophie Fasey on 18.01.2023

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Taxonomic list

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Osteichthyes
 Eurynotiformes - Styracopteridae
Benedenius soreili n. sp., Benedenius deneensis
Benedenius soreili n. sp. Fraipont 1890
ULg 6136
Benedenius deneensis van Beneden 1871
CGF 3