Where: Germany (51.3° N, 8.3° E: paleocoordinates 17.0° S, 6.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Famennian (370.6 - 364.7 Ma)
• Upper Nehdenian, UD II-H
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Paeckelmann in 1925; reposited in the MfN
Primary reference: R. T. Becker. 2002. Alpinites and other Posttornoceratidae (Goniatitida, Famennian). Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Geowissenschaftliche Reihe 5:51-73 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 172599: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.08.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Posttornoceras contiguum Munster 1832 ammonite |