Where: Germany (51.4° N, 7.9° E: paleocoordinates 15.6° S, 5.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Famennian (364.7 - 360.7 Ma)
• UD V
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Schindewolf in 1931; 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 172604: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.08.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Posttornoceras posthumum Wedekind 1918 ammonite |