Autobahnknoten Langenhorst A1/1-bed (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: Famennian (372.2 - 358.9 Ma)

• Bed 68

• 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.

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 38295: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 19.04.2004, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• I am excluding bivalves for beds A1/2 to C3 (bed complex 71), which are dealt with in collection 38266.
Anthozoa
  -
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
 Auloporida - Pyrgiidae
Cladochonus sp. M'Coy 1847 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Micheliniidae
Pleurodictyum "sp. 2" Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet. horn coral
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
Omegops sp. Struve 1976 trilobite
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Pseudowaribole (Pseudowaribole) quaesita Hahn and Brauckmann 1984 trilobite
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Kirkbyidae
Kirkbya sp. Jones 1859 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Amphissitidae
Amphissitidae indet. Knight 1928 ostracod
Amphissites sp. Girty 1910 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Hollinellidae
Hollinellidae indet. Bless and Jordan 1971 ostracod
Hollinella sp. Coryell 1928 ostracod
 Myodocopida - Entomozoidae
Richterina striatula Richter 1848 ostracod
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Spirorbis sp. Daudin 1800
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Craniata
 Craniida - Craniidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
"Leptaena analoga" = Leptagonia analoga
"Leptaena analoga" = Leptagonia analoga Phillips 1836
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
 Productida - Araksalosiidae
 Productida - Productellidae
Productellidae indet. Schuchert 1929
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris urei Fleming 1828
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
 Spiriferinida - Punctospiriferidae
 Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
 Athyridida - Anoplothecidae
Anoplothecidae indet. Schuchert 1894
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Athyris concentrica von Buch 1834
"? Cleiothyridina ? royssii" = Cleiothyridina deroissyi Leveille 1835
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Stenolaemata
 Rhabdomesida - Rhabdomesidae
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pterinopectinidae
  -
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Euomphalidae sp. 2 White 1877 snail
Euomphalidae "sp. 2" White 1877 snail
Cephalopoda
 Pseudorthocerida - Pseudorthoceratidae
Dolorthoceras sp. Miller 1931
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
 Dendrocrinida - Aphelecrinidae
? Cosmetocrinus sp. Kirk 1941 Sea lily
Echinoidea
  - Archaeocidaridae
? Archaeocidaris sp. M'Coy 1844 sea urchin