Ober-Rödinghausen Bed 02 (Devonian of Germany)

Also known as Ober-Roedinghausen D/C boundary section, Famennian part

Where: Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (51.4° N, 7.8° E: paleocoordinates 15.6° S, 5.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Wocklumeria sphaeroides ammonoid zone, Wocklum Limestone Formation, Late/Upper Famennian (364.7 - 360.7 Ma)

• Series of beds below the thick (several m) Hangenberg shale interval. Klein (2016) puts this into an ammonite zone.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone and shale

• [alternating nodular limestones and shales]

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. Brauckmann, I. Chlupac, and R. Feist. 1993. Trilobites at the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary. Annales de la Societe geologique de Belgique 115(2):507-518 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 219037: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 10.03.2021

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
Dianops anophthalmus, ""Phacops" wedekindi" = Rabienops wedekindi, "Phacops" granulatus, "? Cryphops wocklumeriae" = Spinicryphops wocklumeriae
Dianops anophthalmus Frech 1894 trilobite
""Phacops" wedekindi" = Rabienops wedekindi Richter and Richter 1926 trilobite
"Phacops" granulatus Munster 1840 trilobite
"? Cryphops wocklumeriae" = Spinicryphops wocklumeriae Richter and Richter 1926 trilobite
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Helioproetus subcarintiacus, Chaunoproetus (Chaunoproetus) palensis, "Chaunoproetus (Skemmatopyge) tietzei" = Skemmatopyge tietzei, "Semiproetus (Anglibole) anglicus" = Anglibole anglicus
Helioproetus subcarintiacus Richter 1913 trilobite
"Chaunoproetus (Skemmatopyge) tietzei" = Skemmatopyge tietzei Richter and Richter 1919 trilobite
"Semiproetus (Anglibole) anglicus" = Anglibole anglicus Richter 1913 trilobite