ammonites
Quarry Rorive at Villers-le-Temple (Devonian of Belgium)

Where: Namur, Belgium (50.5° N, 5.4° E: paleocoordinates 18.6° 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, micaceous, green, yellow and lithified, yellow, sandy shale

• There are several channels 30-50 cm thick of dull yellow, very micaceous shales, or fine-grained less micaceous yellow to green shales. Under one of the yellow argillaceous layers is a green shale with Linguloids. Barinophyton occurs in a very agrillaceous white shale near the base.

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 32235: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Pat Gensel on 16.06.2003