Flora and fauna from a new Famennian (Upper Devonian) locality at Becco, eastern Belgium ; Flore et faune d'un nouveau gisement famennien (Dévonien supérieur) à Becco, est de la Belgique.

peer reviewed ; The Becco locality (Liège province), belongs to the Theux tectonic window and represents a proximal, probably fluvial, environment corresponding to a channel infill. We present here a preliminary report of the fossil assemblage discovered at the locality. The Becco site has yielded a diverse flora of early seed plants including Moresnetia zalesskyi, Dorinnotheca streeli and Condrusia sp. This assemblage, characteristic of the Belgian Famennian, highlights the diversity of early spermatophytes in the country. Becco has also delivered a rich vertebrate fauna with antiarch, groenl... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Olive, Sébastien
Clément, Gaël
Denayer, Julien
Derycke, Claire
Dupret, Vincent
Gerrienne, Philippe
Gueriau, Pierre
Marion, Jean-Marc
Mottequin, Bernard
Prestiani, Cyrille
Dokumenttyp: journal article
Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
Verlag/Hrsg.: Geologica Belgica
Schlagwörter: Acanthodians / Actinopterygians / Early seed plants / Fluvial facies / Namur-Dinant Basin (Belgium) / Placoderms / Sarcopterygians / Geological mapping of Wallonia / Physical / chemical / mathematical & earth Sciences / Earth sciences & physical geography / Physique / chimie / mathématiques & sciences de la terre / Sciences de la terre & géographie physique
Sprache: Englisch
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peer reviewed ; The Becco locality (Liège province), belongs to the Theux tectonic window and represents a proximal, probably fluvial, environment corresponding to a channel infill. We present here a preliminary report of the fossil assemblage discovered at the locality. The Becco site has yielded a diverse flora of early seed plants including Moresnetia zalesskyi, Dorinnotheca streeli and Condrusia sp. This assemblage, characteristic of the Belgian Famennian, highlights the diversity of early spermatophytes in the country. Becco has also delivered a rich vertebrate fauna with antiarch, groenlandaspid and phyllolepid placoderms, diplacanthiform acanthodians, as well as actinopterygians and various sarcopterygians. The fossiliferous assemblage of Becco resembles those of several Devonian tetrapod- bearing localities, including that of Strud in Belgium, and could therefore provide a favorable palaeoecological setting in the search for early tetrapods.