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 187062: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.07.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras) subpartitum, Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras) amblylobum, Compactoceras (Compactoceras) verneuili
Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras) amblylobum Sandberger and Sandberger 1851 ammonite |