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The first record of Early Devonian ammonoids from Belgium and their stratigraphic significance
De Baets, K.; Goolaerts, S.; Jansen, U.; Rietbergen, T.; Klug, C. (2013). The first record of Early Devonian ammonoids from Belgium and their stratigraphic significance. Geol. Belg. 16(3): 148-156
In: Geologica Belgica. Geologica Belgica: Brussels . ISSN 1374-8505; e-ISSN 2034-1954, more
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Keywords
    Ammonoida † [WoRMS]; Anetoceratinae; Brachiopoda [WoRMS]
Author keywords
    Ammonoidea; Brachiopoda; Early Devonian; Anetoceratinae; Systematics;biostratigraphy

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  • De Baets, K.
  • Goolaerts, S., more
  • Jansen, U.
  • Rietbergen, T.
  • Klug, C.

Abstract
    The first ammonoids from the Lower Emsian (Devonian) of Belgium are described. They belong to the Anetoceratinae, which show the most plesiomorphic characters of all ammonoids. This is the second report of Early Emsian ammonoids within the Rhenish facies of the Rhenish Slate Mountains (Belgium, Germany), in this case from the Belgian part of the Eifel (Burg Reuland). It highlights the possible importance of ammonoids for the correlation of the Emsian in its traditional German sense and the Emsian in the global sense as delimited by the GSSPs. Newly collected, age-significant brachiopods of the genera Arduspirifer and Euryspirifer and other previously reported fossils indicate a middle or late Early Emsian (Singhofen or Vallendar) age (in German sense) for this locality. We extend the range of Ivoites schindewolfi outside of the Hunsrück Basin and further corroborate an age younger than Ulmen for parts of the Hunsrück Slate.

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