Finsterbach valley near Hasborn (Devonian of Germany)

Where: Germany (50.0° N, 6.8° E: paleocoordinates 26.8° S, 5.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Neichnerberg Formation (Singhofen Group), Early/Lower Emsian (409.1 - 402.5 Ma)

• The Neichnerberg Formation is traditionally assigned to the Singhofen Substage

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, brown, gray siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Gunther Fuchs in 1971; reposited in the SMF

Primary reference: C. Ubelacker, U. Jansen, and K. De Baets. 2016. First record of the Early Devonian ammonoid Teicherticeras from the Eifel (Germany): biogeographic and biostratigraphic importance. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 282:201-208 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182837: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.11.2016, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Favositida - Micheliniidae
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet. horn coral
Pisces
  -
"Pisces "fish remains (?)"" = Osteichthyes
"Pisces "fish remains (?)"" = Osteichthyes Huxley 1880 bony fish
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea "columnals" Miller 1821 Sea lily
 Diplobathrida - Rhodocrinitidae
Diamenocrinus sp. Oehlert 1892 Sea lily
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Hysterolitidae
Euryspirifer assimilis Fuchs 1915
ssp. (fragments
Arduspirifer latestriatus
Arduspirifer latestriatus prolatestriatus Mittmeyer 1973
  - Tropidoleptidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Cephalopoda
 Agoniatitida - Teicherticeratidae
Teicherticeras cf. teicherti Chlupac and Turek 1983 ammonite
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Burmeisterella sp. Reed 1918 trilobite
fragment of cranidium