Bundenbach, Hunsrück (Devonian of Germany)

Where: Germany (49.8° N, 7.4° E: paleocoordinates 40.9° S, 43.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hunsruck Slate Formation, Early/Lower Emsian (409.1 - 402.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified slate

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with pyrite

Collected by Maucher

Primary reference: F. Broili. 1928. Crustaceenfunde aus dem rheinischen Unterdevon. Sitzungsberichte der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Abteilung der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München 1928:197-204 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 230899: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.07.2023, edited by Phil Novack-Gottshall and Roy Plotnick

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Pycnogonida
 Palaeopantopoda - Palaeopantopodidae
Palaeopantopus maucheri n. gen. n. sp.1
Palaeopantopus maucheri n. gen. n. sp.1 Broili 1929 sea spider
  - Palaeoisopodidae
Palaeoisopus problematicus n. gen. n. sp. Broili 1928 sea spider
Euchelicerata
 Eurypterida - Pterygotidae
Jaekelopterus sp.3 eurypterid
Polychaeta
 Eunicida -
Gilsonicaris rhenanus n. gen. n. sp.2
Gilsonicaris rhenanus n. gen. n. sp.2 van Straelen 1943
IRSNB a11647