Oben Zum Holz near Grafrath (Devonian of Germany)

Where: Wuppertals, Germany (51.0° N, 7.0° E: paleocoordinates 23.2° S, 7.5° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Brandenberg Schichten Formation, Middle Devonian (393.3 - 382.7 Ma)

• Lower middle Devonian: underlies Honseler Schichten.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, micaceous, gray, yellow sandstone and lithified claystone

• Gray-gold, mostly micaceous, in part thin-layered sandstone, with scattered graywacke.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, permineralized, replaced with pyrite

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: R. Krausel and H. Weyland. 1923. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Devonflora. I. Die Fundorte der beschriebenen Pflazen. Senckenbergiana 5:154-184 [W. Stein/N. Smith/N. Smith]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 32209: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Pat Gensel on 11.06.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• See earlier papers by Stur, 1881; Piedboeuf, 1887; Solms-Laubach, 1895.
unclassified
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Aneurophytopsida
 Aneurophytales - Aneurophytaceae
Aneurophyton germanicum Krausel and Weyland 1923
Cladoxylopsida
 Pseudosporochnales -
Psilophytopsida
 Psilophytales - Psilophytaceae
Psilophyton princeps Dawson 1859
placed in Asteroxylon elberfeldense K&W, 1926
Hostinella
  -
"Hostimella hostimensis" = Hostinella
"Hostimella hostimensis" = Hostinella
renamed Asteroxylon elberfeldense K&W, 1926