Author/s: Anthonie Hellemond, Kevin Houben, Natalie Tolisz, and Kevin Nolis
Palaeontologica Belgica and The Belgian Counsel for Earth Sciences (RAW-CST)
In the active quarry of Lompret near Chimay (province of Hainaut – Belgium) large accumulations of Frasnian cephalopods were collected between 2015 and 2020. The quarry comprises strata that can be linked to the ‘Kellwasser Event’, an important mass-extinction event near the Frasnian-Famennian boundary. Several of the fossil-rich lithological entities from this quarry require different approaches in terms of preparation. In this article we focus on the preparation techniques applied on cephalopods, an important and diverse group of organisms that can help us reconstruct deep marine environmental changes during an ecological crisis.