brickworks on Winchenbachstraße, Barmen, Wuppertal (Devonian of Germany)

Where: Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (51.3° N, 7.2° E: paleocoordinates 18.0° S, 5.8° E)

When: Plattensandstein Formation, Early/Lower Famennian (376.1 - 370.6 Ma)

• I *think* that this is from the Plattensandstein & not the underlying Flinz; it might be from both.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; micaceous sandstone and siltstone

• micaceous

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. Paeckelmann. 1913. Das Oberdevon des Bergischen Landes. Königlich Preussischen Geologischen Landesanstalt 70:1-256 [G. Webster/G. Webster]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 235121: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 05.06.2024

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
"Camarotoechia (Liorhynchus) subreniformis" = Leiorhynchus subreniformis
"Camarotoechia (Liorhynchus) subreniformis" = Leiorhynchus subreniformis Tschernyschew 1887
 Rhynchonellida - Rozmanariidae
"Camarotoechia ? rotundata" = Pugnaria rotundata
"Camarotoechia ? rotundata" = Pugnaria rotundata Münster 1840
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
"Chonetes nana" = Rhyssochonetes nanus
"Chonetes nana" = Rhyssochonetes nanus de Verneuil 1845
Lophophorata
 Tentaculitida - Tentaculitidae
Bivalvia
 Cyrtodontida - Praecardiidae
Cephalopoda
 Bactritida - Bactritidae
 Agoniatitida - Gephuroceratidae
Manticoceras intumescens Beyrich 1837 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Tornoceratidae
? Tornoceras simplex von Buch 1832 ammonite
Tentaculita
 Styliolinida - Styliolinidae