Also known as Ferques
Where: Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France (50.8° N, 1.8° E: paleocoordinates 24.4° S, 4.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: varcus conodont zone, Couderousse Member (Blacourt Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)
• "lower upper Givetian (Middle-Upper varcus Conodont Zone, Pokorninella bricae-Rothpletzella-Tentaculites Assemblage")
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, bioturbated packstone and unlithified lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C. Loones
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
• Natural History Museum of Lille collection
•thin sections were examined
Primary reference: L. Darras, C. Derycke, A. Blieck and D. Vachard. 2008. The oldest holocephalan (Chondrichthyes) from the Middle Devonian of the Boulonnais (Pas-de-Calais, France). 7(5):297-304 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 90628: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 11.08.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Rothpletzella | |
Rothpletzella sp. Wood 1948 | |
Trilobita | |
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite | |
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod | |
Ostracoda | |
Cryptophyllus sp. Levinson 1951 ostracod | |
Strophomenata | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Reticulariacea indet. Waagen | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Lophophorata | |
Tentaculites sp. von Schlotheim 1820 | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Melanodus loonesi n. gen. n. sp.
Melanodus loonesi n. gen. n. sp. Darras et al. 2008 chimaera | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily |