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
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
unclassified | |
Aneurophytopsida | |
Aneurophyton germanicum Krausel and Weyland 1923 | |
Cladoxylopsida | |
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Psilophytopsida | |
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Hostinella | |
"Hostimella hostimensis" = Hostinella
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