Where: Alken, Germany (50.3° N, 7.5° E: paleocoordinates 26.4° S, 5.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Emsian (409.1 - 402.5 Ma)
• plants present in different horizons
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal; argillaceous shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, original carbon
Collection methods: quarrying, chemical, mechanical,
Primary reference: R. Kraeusel and H. Weyland. 1962. Algen und Psilophyten aus dem Unterdevon von Alken an der Mosel. Senckenbergiana Lethaea 43(4):249-282 [P. Gensel/C. Bernard/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 27049: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Caroline Bernard on 14.11.2002, edited by Roy Plotnick
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Psilophytopsida | |
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Bivalvia | |
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Lophophorata | |
Tentaculites sp.5 von Schlotheim 1820 | |
Polychaeta | |
Spirorbis sp.5 Daudin 1800 | |
Thurandina waterstoni n. gen. n. sp.4
Thurandina waterstoni n. gen. n. sp.4 Stoermer 1974 | |
Xiphosura | |
Euchelicerata | |
"Heteroaspis novojilovi n. gen. n. sp." = Heteroaspis stoermeri2, Diploaspis casteri n. gen. n. sp.2
"Heteroaspis novojilovi n. gen. n. sp." = Heteroaspis stoermeri2 Novojilov 1959
Diploaspis casteri n. gen. n. sp.2 Størmer 1972 | |
Arachnida | |
? Archaeometa devonica n. sp.5
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Waeringoscorpio hefteri n. gen. n. sp.1
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"Archaeomartus tuberculatus n. gen. n. sp." = Archaeomartus levis1
"Archaeomartus tuberculatus n. gen. n. sp." = Archaeomartus levis1 Størmer 1970 | |
Alkenia mirabilis n. gen. n. sp.1
Alkenia mirabilis n. gen. n. sp.1 Størmer 1970 | |
Euchelicerata | |
Alkenopterus brevitelson n. gen. n. sp.4
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"? Eurypterus trapezoides n. sp." = Adelophthalmus sievertsi4, Parahughmilleria major n. sp.3, Parahughmilleria hefteri n. sp.3
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Rhenopterus macroturberculatus n. sp.4
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Drepanopterus struvei n. sp.4
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Myriapoda | |
Eoarthropleura devonica n. gen. n. sp.5
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Osteichthyes | |
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Pteraspidomorpha | |