Where: Germany (50.3° N, 6.5° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 8.4° S, 27.7° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Klerf Formation, Early/Lower Emsian (410.6 - 399.5 Ma)

• The fossil-bearing sequence is approximately 1.5 m thick and comprises muds and siltstones intercalated with thin, sandy laminae.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; lithified, gray siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by M. Poschmann

• Repository: Landessammlung fur Naturkunde, Rheinland-Pfalz at Mainz

Primary reference: J. A. Dunlop and M. Poschmann. 1997. On the Emsian (Lower Devonian) arthropods of the Rhenish Schiefergebirge: 1. Xenarachne, an enigmatic arachnid from Willwerath, Germany. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 71:231-236 [D. Smith/A. Kinchloe/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155775: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.04.2014, edited by April Kinchloe and Roy Plotnick

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