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A classic Late Frasnian chondrichthyan assemblage from southern Belgium
Ginter, M.; Gouwy, S.; Goolaerts, S. (2017). A classic Late Frasnian chondrichthyan assemblage from southern Belgium. Acta Geol. Pol. 67(3): 381-392. https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/agp-2017-0017
In: Acta Geologica Polonica. Muzeum Ziemi: Warszawa. ISSN 0001-5709; e-ISSN 2300-1887
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Keyword
    Marine/Coastal
Author keywords
    Late Devonian; Belgium; Dinant Synclinorium; Chondrichthyes;Microfossils

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  • Ginter, M.
  • Gouwy, S.
  • Goolaerts, S.

Abstract
    Samples from the Upper Frasnian (Devonian) of Lompret Quarry and Nismes railway section in Dinant Synclinorium, southern Belgium, yielded several chondrichthyan teeth and scales. The teeth belong to three genera: Phoebodus, Cladodoides and Protacrodus. The comparison with selected Late Frasnian chondrichthyan assemblages from the seas between Laurussia and Gondwana revealed substantial local differences of taxonomic composition due to palaeoenvironmental conditions, such as depth, distance to submarine platforms, oxygenation of water, and possibly also temperature. The assemblage from Belgium, with its high frequency of phoebodonts, is the most similar to that from the Ryauzyak section, South Urals, Russia, and the Horse Spring section, Canning Basin, Australia.

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