Also known as Reef 3562
Where: Belgium (50.6° N, 5.4° E: paleocoordinates 9.1° S, 5.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Corphalie Member (Lives Formation), Holkerian (346.7 - 340.0 Ma)
• Livian, Cf5 foraminifera zone, RC6 rugose coral zone, sequence 0
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: E. Chevalier and M. Aretz. 2005. A microbe-bryozoan reef from the Middle Visean of the Namur Syncline (Engihoul Quarry). Geologica Belgica 8:109-119 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 76654: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.11.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Dasycladophyceae | |
Osagia | |
"Osagia" sp. Twenhofel 1919 | |
Demospongiae | |
Chaetetidae indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 chaetetid sponge | |
Anthozoa | |
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Composita sp. Brown 1849 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Rhabdomesida indet. Vine 1883 | |
Bryozoa | |
Gastropoda | |
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Cyanophyceae | |
Aphralysia sp. Garwood 1914 | |
Porostromata | |
? Porostromata indet. Pia 1927 |