Where: Germany (50.2° N, 7.5° E: paleocoordinates 26.4° S, 5.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Nellenköpfchen Formation, Early/Lower Emsian (409.1 - 402.5 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; lithified, muddy siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collection methods: Repository: private collection of O. Vogel (Eveshausen)
Primary reference: M. Poschmann and J. A. Dunlop. 2010. Trigonotarbid arachnids from the Lower Devonian (Lower Emsian) of Alken an der Mosel (Rhineland-Palatinate, SW Germany). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 84:467-484 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 155774: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.04.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Arachnida | |
Alkenia mirabilis Størmer 1970 |