Where: Germany (50.6° N, 7.5° E: paleocoordinates 25.7° S, 2.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Siegen Formation, Pragian (410.8 - 407.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by M. Poschmann
• Repository: Landessammlung fur Naturkunde Rheinland-Pfalz, housed at the Naturhistorisches Museum Mainz
Primary reference: M. Poschmann and J. A. Dunlop. 2012. Reassessing Devonotarbus, a phalangiotarbid arachnid from the Lower Devonian (Siegenian and Emsian) of the Rheinisches Schiefergebirge (SW Germany). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 86:377-387 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 162728: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.10.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Arachnida | |
Devonotarbus hombachensis Poschmann et al. 2005 phalangiotarbid PWL2011/5664-LS (ex. SPW 863-D), PWL2011/5665-LS (ex SPW 838-D)
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