Ardengost, Hautes-Pyrenees (Carboniferous of France)

Also known as Reef 2126

Where: France (42.9° N, 0.4° E: paleocoordinates 13.4° S, 11.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Ardengost Formation, Serpukhovian (330.9 - 323.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified wackestone and lithified lime mudstone

• bioclastic wackestones/packstones, mudstones, boundstones and grainstones. Includes small coral-chaetetid banks.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: M. F. Perret and D. Vachard. 1977. Algues et pseudo-algues des calcaires Serpoukhoviens d'Ardengost (Hautes-Pyrenees) [Algues and pseudo-algues from Serpukhovian Limestones of Ardengost (Hautes-Pyrenees)]. Annales de Paleontologie (Invertebres) 63(2):85-156 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76632: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.11.2007

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Taxonomic list

Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Garwoodia cf. gregaria Nicholson 1941
unclassified
  -
Foraminifera
  -
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
  -
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Foraminifera
 Fusulinina - Archaesphaeridae
Diplosphaerina sp. Derville 1952
 Fusulinina - Earlandiidae
 Endothyroidea - Loeblichiidae
 Endothyroidea - Bradyinidae
Bradyina cribrostomata Rauser-Chernousova and Reitlinger 1937
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
 Fusulinoidea - Staffellidae
 Fusulinoidea - Eostaffellidae
 Palaeotextularoidea - Palaeotextulariidae
 Palaeotextularoidea - Biseriamminidae
"Globivalvulina ex gr. parva" = Biseriella parva
"Globivalvulina ex gr. parva" = Biseriella parva Chernysheva 1948
 Archaediscacea - Archaediscidae
 Archaediscacea - Lasiodiscidae
 Tetrataxoidea - Tetrataxidae
Pseudokamaena
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Rhodophyceae
 Florideae -
Ungdarella uralica Maslov 1956
 Calcifoliida - Calcifoliaceae
Calcifolium okense Shvetsov and Birina 1935
 Calcifoliida - Fasciellidae
  - Solenoporaceae
Solenopora sp. Dybowski 1877
  - Aoujgaliaceae
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
 Cryptonemiales - Archaeolithophyllaceae
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales -
 Dasycladales - Beresellaceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Nanopora anglica Wood 1964
 Dasycladales - Seletonellaceae
 Dasycladales -
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Codiaceae
Demospongiae
 Hadromerida - Suberitidae
Chaetetes sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1829 demosponge
Anthozoa
 Heterocorallia - Heterophylliidae
 Stauriida - Palaeosmiliidae
Koninckophyllum cf. magnificum Thomson and Nicholson 1876 horn coral
Palaeosmilia murchisoni Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 horn coral
 Stauriida - Aulophyllidae
Dibunophyllum sp. Thomson and Nicholson 1876 horn coral
Dibunophyllum bipartitum McCoy 1849 horn coral
 Stauriida - Cyathopsidae
 Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
 Stauriida - Lonsdaleiidae
Lonsdaleia sp. McCoy 1849 horn coral
Lonsdaleia duplicata Martin 1809 horn coral
 Stauriida - Axophyllidae
Axophyllum sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 horn coral
Axophyllum lonsdaleiforme Salee 1912 horn coral
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae
Ortonella furcata Garwood 1914 clam
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
unclassified
  -
Annelida indet. Lamarck 1809
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Trilobita
  -
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
unclassified
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