Grube Grottenberg, near Brilon (Devonian of Germany)

Where: Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (51.4° N, 8.7° E: paleocoordinates 21.7° S, 8.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Brilon Massenkalk Formation, Late/Upper Givetian (380.2 - 382.7 Ma)

• Upper Givetian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified grainstone and lithified wackestone

• light grey arenitic grainstones, wackestones, floatstones and rudstones at the base of the Massenkalk, with echinoderm debris and brachiopods in coquinas.

•

•(NOTE: copied from another locality, not from Kayser.)

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F.H.E. Kayser. 1872. Studien aus dem Gebiete des Rheinischen Devon. III. Die Fauna des Rotheisensteins von Brilon in Westfalen. Zeitschrift der Deutschen geologischen Gesellschaft 24:653-690 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 157402: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 19.06.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Show authors, comments, and common names
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Craspedostomatidae
Spirina brilonensis n. gen. n. sp.
Spirina brilonensis n. gen. n. sp. Kayser 1889 snail
"Eisenstein"
 Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae
"Scoliostoma serpens n. sp." = Brilonella serpens
"Scoliostoma serpens n. sp." = Brilonella serpens Kayser 1872 snail
"Roteisenstein"