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 187064: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.07.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Simicheiloceras praecursor ammonite
Linguatornoceras haugi Frech 1902 ammonite
Polonoceras sp. Dybczynski 1913 ammonite | |
"Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras) sacculum" = Cheiloceras sacculum, Compactoceras (Compactoceras) undulosum, Compactoceras (Nehdenites) circumflexum, Compactoceras (Compactoceras) verneuili, Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras) subpartitum, Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras) amblylobum, Paratorleyoceras globosum, Compactoceras (Puncticeras) pompeckji
"Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras) sacculum" = Cheiloceras sacculum Sandberger 1851 ammonite
Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras) subpartitum Munster 1839 ammonite ssp. crassum, ssp. subpartitum, ssp. subcostatum, ssp. evolutum
Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras) amblylobum Sandberger and Sandberger 1851 ammonite
Paratorleyoceras globosum Munster 1832 ammonite | |