Huombois quarry (Jurassic of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (49.6° N, 5.6° E: paleocoordinates 38.0° N, 10.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Semicostatum (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone

• Shell concentration (sand packed with bivalve debris) interbedded in sandy levels, in particular from the upper part of the coquina with Isastrea sp. and Arnioceras oppeli.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Centre de Recherches Lorraines (CRL)

Primary reference: D. Delsate and C. J. Duffin. 1993. Chondrichthyens du Sinémurien de Belgique. Belgian Geological Survey, Professional Paper, Elasmobranches et Stratigraphie 264:103-136 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179491: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.06.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes - Lonchidiidae
"Lissodus cf. pattersoni" = Parvodus pattersoni
"Lissodus cf. pattersoni" = Parvodus pattersoni Duffin 1985 elasmobranch
HUO-CRL-70
 Synechodontiformes - Palaeospinacidae
"Synechodus enniskilleni" = Palidiplospinax enniskilleni, "Synechodus occultidens" = Palidiplospinax occultidens
"Synechodus enniskilleni" = Palidiplospinax enniskilleni Duffin and Ward 1993 elasmobranch
HUO-CRL-50
"Synechodus occultidens" = Palidiplospinax occultidens Duffin and Ward 1993 elasmobranch
HUO-CRL-60
 Euselachii - Agaleidae
Agaleus sp. Duffin and Ward 1983 elasmobranch
HUO-CRL-01, 02, 03, 04, 12, 30, 110
 Chimaeriformes - Myriacanthidae
Myriacanthidae indet. Woodward 1889 chimaera