Frasnian Stage

Frasnian Stage

      lowermost of the two standard worldwide divisions of Late Devonian (Devonian Period) rocks and time. Frasnian time occurred between 385.3 million and 374.5 million years ago. The stage's name is derived from the town of Frasnes in the Ardennes region of southern Belgium. The lower boundary point of the Frasnian is defined on the basis of the first occurrence of the conodont Ancyrodella rotundiloba. Under the authority of the International Commission on Stratigraphy, the Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) defining the base of this unit was established in 1987 on a hillside exposure at Col du Puech de la Suque in the Noire Mountains region of southern France. The top of the Frasnian Stage records the Upper Kellwasser Event, a mass extinction of many marine invertebrates, especially among the colonial rugose corals; stromatoporoids (thought to be large fossilized sponges); orthid, pentamerid, and atrypid brachiopods (lamp shells) (lamp shells); trilobites (trilobite); and conodonts. This major extinction event defines the top of the Frasnian and thus the base of the overlying Famennian Stage. The Frasnian Stage is underlain by the Givetian Stage of the Middle Devonian Series.

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