Hillersheim Syncline, Ahbach Fm (Devonian of Germany)

Where: Germany (50.3° N, 6.8° E: paleocoordinates 23.0° S, 7.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Olifant Member (Ahbach Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• Müllert Subformation; lowermost Lower Givetian

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; muddy limestone

• Muddy limestone containing corals, brachiopods, crinoids, sponges

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: A. Ernst. 2008. Non-fenestrate bryozoans from the Middle Devonian of the Eifel (western Rhenish Massif, Germany). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 250(3):313-379 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144092: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 30.04.2013, edited by Barbara Seuss and Allart Van Viersen

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Trilobita
 Proetida - Otarionidae
Cyphaspis heissae n. sp.3 Van Viersen and Prescher 2014 trilobite
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata -
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
Reteporidra sp. Nickles and Bassler 1900
 Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
 Cystoporata - Botrylloporidae
 Trepostomata - Heterotrypidae
 Rhabdomesida - Rhabdomesidae
 Rhabdomesida - Nikiforovellidae
Polychaeta
 Serpulimorpha -
Chaetosalpinx tapanilai n. sp.2
new ichnospecies