Abstract
Dinantian carbonates of the Tournai and Dinant regions, southern Belgium, contain several trace fossil assemblages. These assemblages consist of the following ichnogenera:Cruziana, Rhizocorallium,Scalarituba, Scolicia, Skolithos, Phycosiphon, Planolites andZoophycos. Scalarituba andPhycosiphon are reported for the first time from the Carboniferous of Western Europe. The ichnofossils occur in discrete ichnofacies.Skolithos andZoophycos ichnofacies occur within the Ivorian (Upper Tournaisian). TheCruziana andSkolithos ichnofacies are found in the Moliniacian (Lower Visean). In the Dinant region, ichnofossils record a change from infauna to epifauna at the Ivorian-Moliniacian transition. Woodgrained chert is recognized and corresponds stratigraphically and palaeogeographically with those from the Western Interior United States.
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