Where: Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (50.2° N, 6.7° E: paleocoordinates 24.7° S, 8.2° E)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Flesten Member (Ahrdorf Formation), Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)
• Just below Aquarius bentonite.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous marl
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. P. Van Viersen, H. Prescher, and J. Savelsbergh. 2009. Description of two new trilobites from the Ahrdorf Formation (Middle Devonian) at the “Trilobitenfelder” of Gees, Eifel, Rhenish Mountains. Bulletin de l’Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 79:43-53 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 216505: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 15.12.2020
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Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Tropidocoryphe bassei n. sp.
Tropidocoryphe bassei n. sp. Van Viersen et al. 2009 trilobite |