Bilstein, Rhenish Massif (Devonian of Germany)

Also known as Reef 1563

Where: Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (51.0° N, 7.3° E: paleocoordinates 23.9° S, 8.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)

• Mühlenberg-Schichten, thickness 15m

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; shale

• coastal environment
• Grauwacken and Shale Mühlenberg Fauna

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying

Primary reference: U. Jux. 1960. Die devonischen Riffe im Rheinischen Schiefergebirge [The Devonian reefs of the Rheinisches Schiefergebirge]. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 110(2):186-258 [W. Kiessling/F. Reichel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 78403: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Falko Reichel on 06.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

• Crinoids are not listed
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830
listed as Chonotes sp.
 Productida - Productellidae
 Orthotetida - Pulsiidae
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Stringocephalidae
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Schizophoria sp. King 1850
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Athyris concentrica von Buch 1834
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia
 Solemyida - Ctenodontidae
Ctenodonta sp. Salter 1852 clam
 Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
Grammysia sp. de Verneuil 1847 clam
Sphenotus sp. Hall 1884 clam
 Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
Leptodomus sp. M'Coy 1844 clam
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
Paracyclas sp. Hall 1843 clam
 Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
Myophoria sp. Bronn 1834 clam
Duisbergia
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Duisbergia sp. Kraeusel and Weyland 1929