ammonites
Assemblage 5 (Devonian of France)

Also known as Lower part of term b in the Beaulieu Formation

Where: Boulonnais, France (46.0° N, 2.0° E: paleocoordinates 29.6° S, 23.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Cambreseque Member (Beaulieu Formation), Frasnian (383.7 - 376.1 Ma)

• approx. 10m thick

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, red, argillaceous, silty limestone and shelly/skeletal limestone

• Lithologically dominated by dark greyish-red or bluish-grey argillaceous deposits that are broken into small blocks and interbedded with silt sized storm deposits.

Primary reference: D. Brice. 2003. Brachiopod assemblages in the Devonian of Ferques (Boulonnais, France). Relations to palaeoenvironments and global eustatic curves. Bulletin of Geosciences 78(4):405-417 [L. Ivany/C. Story/C. Story] more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 65813: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Cristina Story on 25.09.2006