Autobahnknoten Langenhorst Bed 31 (Devonian of Germany)

Where: Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (51.3° N, 7.1° E: paleocoordinates 16.8° S, 5.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Velbert Formation, Famennian (372.2 - 358.9 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale and lime mudstone

• Section consists of sandstones, siltstones, shales, calcareous shales, some interbedded micrites, and oolitic micrites near the top (starting at about bed 74). Lowest micrite is at about bed 40. This bed is shale.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. Michels. 1986. Oekologie und Fazies des juengsten Ober-Devon von Velbert (Rheinisches Schiefergebirge). Goettinger Arbeiten zur Geologie und Palaeontologie 29:1-86 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 38274: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 19.04.2004

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Taxonomic list

• I am excluding bivalves for beds A1/2 to C3 (bed complex 71), which are dealt with in collection 38266.
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Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Stenolaemata
 Rhabdomesida - Rhabdomesidae
Rhabdomeson cf. regularis
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
"Centrorhynchus letiensis" = Sartenaerus
"Centrorhynchus letiensis" = Sartenaerus
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
Kitakamithyris microgemma
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Schuchertella sp., Schuchertella radialis
Schuchertella sp. Girty 1904
Schuchertella radialis Phillips 1836
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
? Chonetes kayserianus
 Productida - Araksalosiidae
""Avonia" concentrica" = Chonetipustula concentrica, Steinhagella steinhagei
""Avonia" concentrica" = Chonetipustula concentrica Hall 1857
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet.
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod