Muessenberg D/C boundary section, Tournaisian part (beds 0-2) (Carboniferous of Germany)

Where: Germany (51.3° N, 7.9° E: paleocoordinates 13.4° S, 5.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Stockum Formation, Hastarian (358.9 - 353.8 Ma)

• PJW: The formation at the D/C boundary at Muessenberg is the Stockum.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, green limestone

• Beds 0,1,2 (Tournaisian): green-gray limestone; Beds 3 and lower (Famennian): green-brown limestone with green shale at base; green nodular limestone; yellow-greeen limestone nodules in shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. Korn. 1981. Ein neues, Ammonoiden-fuehrendes Profil an der Devon-Karbon-Grenze im Sauerland (Rhein. Schiefergebirge). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 1981(91):513-526 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 38648: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 26.04.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Cyrtoproetus (Cyrtoproetus) cf. blax1, "Diacoryphe strenuispina" = Diacoryphe (Archaeocoryphe) strenuispina1, "Semiproetus (Macrobole) duodecimae" = Macrobole duodecimae1, Semiproetus (Macrobole) drewerensis1, Liobolina sp.1
Cyrtoproetus (Cyrtoproetus) cf. blax1 Richter and Richter 1951 trilobite
"Diacoryphe strenuispina" = Diacoryphe (Archaeocoryphe) strenuispina1 Osmólska 1962 trilobite
"Semiproetus (Macrobole) duodecimae" = Macrobole duodecimae1 Richter and Richter 1951 trilobite
Semiproetus (Macrobole) drewerensis1 Richter and Richter 1951 trilobite
Liobolina sp.1 Richter and Richter 1951 trilobite
Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Voehringeritidae
Voehringerites peracutus2
 Goniatitida - Gattendorfiidae
Gattendorfia tenuis2
1Brauckmann et al. 1993; 2Korn 1993