ammonites
Quarry at the station of Hamois-en-Condroz (Devonian of Belgium)

Where: Namur, Belgium (50.3° N, 5.1° E: paleocoordinates 18.9° S, 5.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Evieux Formation, Late/Upper Famennian (364.7 - 360.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, yellow sandstone and lithified, blue sandstone

• Several fossiliferous layers: a gritty psammite which falls into layers 1 cm thick, rusty or yellow from oxidation, offering surfaces covered with brown plant debris, indeterminable, hash. To SW, rocks are purple, in a poorly stratified back of bluish sandstone with fine grain, and contain beautiful branches and debris of Moresnetia zalesskyi and Condrusia rumex. Above, in dull shales with numerous axes and shales at Cucullees with some plant debris, is Condrusia rumex.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, original carbon

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: F. Stockmans. 1948. Vegetaux du Devonien Superieur de la Belgique. Memoires du Musee Royal D'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 110:3-85 [P. Gensel/P. Gensel/P. Gensel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 32233: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Pat Gensel on 16.06.2003