Where: Germany (51.4° N, 8.6° E: paleocoordinates 18.2° S, 6.7° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Nehden Formation, Early/Lower Famennian (376.1 - 370.6 Ma)
• Lower Nehdenian of classic German chronostratigraphy, the “do IIα”, (Lower Cheiloceras-Stufe), UD II-D.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, pyritic, black, silty, calcareous shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 2013
Primary reference: R. T. Becker, S. Hartenfels, S. Helling and G. Schreiber. 2016. The “Nehden Goniatite Shale” (lower Famennian, Brilon Reef Complex, NE Rhenish Massif). Münstersche Forschungen zur Geologie und Paläontologie 108:179-195 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 187041: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.07.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Lobobactrites sp. Schindewolf 1932 | |
"Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras) sacculum" = Cheiloceras sacculum, Compactoceras (Nehdenites) circumflexum, Compactoceras (Compactoceras) verneuili, Compactoceras (Compactoceras) tenue, Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras) amblylobum, Paratorleyoceras globosum, Paratorleyoceras aff. globosum, "Cheiloceras (Staffites) complanatum" = Staffites, "Cheiloceras (Staffites) curvispina" = Staffites curvispinus, Compactoceras (Puncticeras) pompeckji
"Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras) sacculum" = Cheiloceras sacculum Sandberger 1851 ammonite
Compactoceras (Compactoceras) tenue ammonite
Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras) amblylobum Sandberger and Sandberger 1851 ammonite
Paratorleyoceras globosum Munster 1832 ammonite
Paratorleyoceras aff. globosum Munster 1832 ammonite
"Cheiloceras (Staffites) complanatum" = Staffites ammonite
"Cheiloceras (Staffites) curvispina" = Staffites curvispinus Sandberger and Sandberger 1850 ammonite | |
Falcitornoceras korni Becker 1993 ammonite |