Locality W14a. K1 (Cambrian of Germany)

Also known as Triebenreuth locality, Tannenknock Fm, Locality W14a, West Gondwana

Where: Germany (50.2° N, 11.6° E: paleocoordinates 44.3° S, 104.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wildenstein Member (Tannenknock Formation), Undillan (503.0 - 500.5 Ma)

• middle Middle Cambrian (middle Celtiberian Series). PJW: Initially entered as Galgenberg, but Geyer et al. (2018) list it as Galgenberg facies in Wildenstein member.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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 186164: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 16.06.2017, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Ellipsocephalidae
Ornamentaspis sp. Geyer 1990 trilobite
Kingaspidoides alberti Geyer 2017 trilobite
Kingaspidoides frankenwaldensis Wurm 1925 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Solenopleuridae
Parasolenopleura wurmi Geyer 2017 trilobite
Hyolitha
  -
 Hyolithida -
 Orthothecida -