Grubenfeld Quarry, Schlade Valley (Devonian of Germany)

Where: Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (51.0° N, 7.1° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 16.4° S, 14.7° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Buechel Formation, Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• unit 4, middle part of the Buechel Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

• dark grey- to black-coloured, bituminous marly shale layer on top of a post-biostrome facies, "Schlade Event Layer", post-disaster fauna

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Bohaty and H.-G. Herbig. 2010. Middle Givetian echinoderms from the Schlade Valley (Rhenish Massif, Germany): habitats, taxonomy and ecostratigraphy. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 84:365-385 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 101679: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.12.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
Goldius beckmanni
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Ophiocistioidea
  - Rotasacciidae
cf. Rotasaccus sp.
cf. Rotasaccus sp. Haude and Langenstrassen 1976
Holothuroidea
 Apodida - Achistridae
Achistrum multiperforatum
Achistrum multiperforatum Beckmann 1965 sea cucumber
 Dendrochirotida - Cucumariidae
? Devonothyonites sp.
? Devonothyonites sp. Langer 1991 sea cucumber
 Dendrochirotida - Calclamnidae
"Eocaudina septaforminalis" = Eocaudina septaforaminalis
"Eocaudina septaforminalis" = Eocaudina septaforaminalis Martin 1952 sea cucumber