Where: Eifel, Germany (50.0° N, 7.0° E: paleocoordinates 26.7° S, 5.1° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Gladbach Formation, Early/Lower Emsian (409.1 - 402.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; gray siltstone and sandstone
Collection methods: "This horizon contains diverse faunas."
Primary reference: G. Fuchs. 1982. Upper Siegenian and Lower Emsian in the Eifel Hills. CFS. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 55:229-255 [A. Miller/J. Sessa/J. Sessa]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 24633: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 12.08.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Anthozoa | |
Pleurodictyum indet. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral | |
Rhynchonellata | |
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Meganteris ovata Maurer 1879 | |
Strophomenata | |
Leptostrophia indet. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
"Crinistrophia indet." = Douvillinella (Crinistrophia)
"Crinistrophia indet." = Douvillinella (Crinistrophia) | |
"Iridostrophia indet." = Iridistrophia
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Bivalvia | |
Nuculites indet. Conrad 1841 clam | |
Stappersella indet. Maillieux 1920 clam | |
Limoptera indet. Hall 1869 oyster | |
Cypricardella indet. Hall 1856 clam | |
Carydium indet. Beushausen 1895 clam | |
Leptodomus indet. M'Coy 1844 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bembexia indet. Oehlert and Oehlert 1888 snail |