Where: Germany (50.2° N, 11.5° E: paleocoordinates 44.4° S, 104.3° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Galgenberg Member (Tannenknock Formation), Undillan (503.0 - 500.5 Ma)
• middle Middle Cambrian (middle Celtiberian Series)
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; cherty/siliceous shale and sandstone
Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: G. Geyer. 2017. Trilobites of the Galgenberg Member (Tannenknock Formation), middle Cambrian Stage 5, Franconian Forest, Germany: a paradigmatic lowermost middle Cambrian West Gondwanan fauna. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 91:5-70 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 186150: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 16.06.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Kingaspidoides cf. frankenwaldensis Wurm 1925 trilobite |