Ratingen (Carboniferous of Germany)

Where: Germany (51.3° N, 6.8° E: paleocoordinates 11.6° S, 5.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Erdbach Limestone Formation, Ivorian (353.8 - 346.7 Ma)

• Late Tournaisian; PJW: was Carboniferous Limestone, but this should now be Erdbach Limestone

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: trilobites only

Primary reference: G. Hahn, R. Hahn, and C. Brauckmann. 1980. Die Trilobiten des belgischen Kohlenkalkes (Unter-Karbon). 1. Proetinae, Cyrtosymbolinae und Aulacopleuridae. Geologica et Palaeontologica 14:165-188 [D. Korn/D. Korn/D. Korn]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 37132: authorized by Dieter Korn, entered by Dieter Korn on 03.03.2004, edited by Daniela Liebsch and Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Trilobita "indet."1
Archegonus (Belgibole) ratingensis
Trilobita
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Archegonus (Belgibole) ratingensis, "Griffithides (Bollandia) cf. globiceps" = Bollandia persephone1, Cummingella jonesi1, Paladin (Paladin) sp.1, "Paladin (Paladin) dalmani" = Rhenogriffides dalmani1
"Griffithides (Bollandia) cf. globiceps" = Bollandia persephone1 Phillips 1836 trilobite
Cummingella jonesi1 Portlock 1843 trilobite
Cummingella jonesi jonesi
Paladin (Paladin) sp.1 Weller 1936 trilobite
"Paladin (Paladin) dalmani" = Rhenogriffides dalmani1 Emmrich 1839 trilobite
 Proetida - Brachymetopidae
"Brachymetopus spinimarginatus" = Brachymetopus maccoyi spinimarginatus2 Hahn and Hahn 1969 trilobite
Brachymetopus maccoyi spinimarginatus
Brachymetopus spinosus2 Herrick 1888 trilobite
Brachymetopus maccoyi spinosus