Wallersheim Quarry, Büdesheim Fmn, upper mbr (Devonian of Germany)

Where: Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (50.2° N, 6.5° E: paleocoordinates 20.3° S, 6.4° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Loch Member (Büdesheim Formation), Late/Upper Frasnian (379.5 - 376.1 Ma)

• Wallersheim Subsyncline

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, dolomitic, gray, yellow limestone and marl

• alternation of fossil-rich, solid, irregularly-bedded to lenticular, light- or yellowish-gray dolomitic limestones, and dolomites, partly with coarse crinoid debris, and dark-gray to black, organic-rich, laminated shale, partly with slumped dolomite blocks, and very fossiliferous gray marls with mixed pelagic/neritic fauna

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: J. Bohatý, W. I. Ausich, and R. T. Becker. 2024. Frasnian crinoid associations of the Prüm Syncline (Eifel, Rhenish Massif, Germany) – biostratigraphic framework and macrofossil assemblages. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 312(1):31-83more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 236364: authorized by Val Syverson, entered by Val Syverson on 30.09.2024

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Taxonomic list

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Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Hexacrinitidae
Megaradialocrinus faniensis
Cephalopoda
 Oncocerida - Nothoceratidae
Cranoceras wallersheimensis
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Pachyplaxoides postgyralea
Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Hexacrinitidae
Megaradialocrinus nitidus
 Sagenocrinida - Dactylocrinidae
Dactylocrinus beyrichi
 Monobathrida - Melocrinitidae
Melocrinites ? wallersheimensis, Melocrinites hieroglyphicus, Melocrinites bialasi
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Hypothyridinidae
cf. Hypothyridina sp.
cf. Hypothyridina sp. Buckman 1906
Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Tornoceratidae
Phoenixites frechi
Phoenixites frechi Wedekind 1918 ammonite
 Agoniatitida - Gephuroceratidae
Manticoceras aff. cordatum, Manticoceras aff. carinatum
Manticoceras aff. cordatum Sandberger and Sandberger 1856 ammonite
"giant"
Manticoceras aff. carinatum Beyrich 1837 ammonite
n. sp.
 Nautiloidea -
Nautiloidea indet.
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid
Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet.
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin