Pfaffenberg, Oberes Muehltal near Obernitz, south of Saalfeld, 3 (Carboniferous of Germany)

Where: Thuringia, Germany (50.7° N, 11.4° E: paleocoordinates 11.2° S, 14.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Siphonodella sandbergi conodont zone, Pfaffenberg Member (Gleitsch Formation), Hastarian (358.9 - 353.8 Ma)

• Early Tournaisian, sulcata-zone

•JA: originally entered as Tournaisian, but Hastarian based on zonal assignment; see Somerville 2008

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: trilobites only

Primary reference: G. Hahn, R. Hahn, and K. Gawlick. 1995. Phylogenie und Systematik von Diacoryphe und verwandten Gattungen (Trilobita; Unter-Karbon). Geologica et Palaeontologica 29:145-191 [D. Korn/D. Korn/D. Korn]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 37226: authorized by Dieter Korn, entered by Daniela Liebsch on 08.03.2004

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Diacoryphe (Archaeocoryphe) heden Hahn et al. 1995 trilobite
Weyeraspis weyeri n. gen. n. sp. Hahn et al. 1995 trilobite
Weyeraspis bartzschi n. gen. n. sp. Hahn et al. 1995 trilobite