Weltersberg Horizon of Eifelian Hills, Germany, Vallendar substage Devonian (Devonian of Germany)

Where: Eifel, Germany (50.0° N, 7.0° E: paleocoordinates 27.1° S, 9.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Gladbach Formation, Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; gray, green siltstone and sandstone

• "greenish-gray siltstone and often ripple-bedded, greenish-gray finegrained sandstone, often in compact successions. In the upper part an acid ash layer is intercalated."

Collection methods: "This horizon contains a particularly diverse fauna in few fossil layers."

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 24694: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 17.08.2002

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Taxonomic list

• Most common taxa are listed in text.
unclassified
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Anthozoa
 Favositida - Micheliniidae
Pleurodictyum indet. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Homalonotidae indet. Chapman 1890 trilobite
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Athyridida - Anoplothecidae
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
 Terebratulida - Cryptonellidae
 Orthida - Platyorthidae
Platyorthis indet.
Platyorthis
 Spiriferida - Hysterolitidae
Euryspirifer spp. Wedekind 1926
Euryspiriferids
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Chonetidae indet. Bronn 1862
Chonetids
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Strophodonta spp." = Strophomena (Strophodonta)
"Strophodonta spp." = Strophomena (Strophodonta) Hall 1852
Strophodontids
Lophophorata
 Tentaculitida - Tentaculitidae
Tentaculitidae indet. Walcott 1886
Tentaculites