Apricke A. Pit on the mountainside (Devonian of Germany)

Where: Germany (51.4° N, 8.0° E: paleocoordinates 15.6° S, 5.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dasberger Formation, Late/Upper Famennian (364.7 - 360.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, nodular limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Schmidt in 1921; reposited in the MfN

• Former collection of Prussian Geological Survey

Primary reference: M. Basse and U. Lemke. 2020. Class Trilobita in the Wocklum Limestone of the northern Rhenish Massif east of the Rhine (late Famennian, Late Devonian) – Part 1. Phillipsiidae and Proetidae. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 298(2):203-233 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 229399: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 08.03.2023

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
"Rabienops aff. granulatus" = Phacops (Phacops) granulatus, Dianops sp.
"Rabienops aff. granulatus" = Phacops (Phacops) granulatus Munster 1840 trilobite
Dianops sp. Richter 1923 trilobite
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Helioproetus costifusus Richter and Richter 1928 trilobite
Chaunoproetus (Chaunoproetus) sp. Richter and Richter 1919 trilobite
Haasproetus sp. Baase 2007 trilobite
? Pseudowaribole sp. Hahn and Hahn 1967 trilobite
 Proetida - Proetidae
Perliproetus sp. Richter 1927 trilobite