39: Beul, Newberria Beds, Rhenish Massif, Germany (Devonian of Germany)

Where: Germany (51.1° N, 7.7° E: paleocoordinates 22.3° S, 7.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Newberria Formation, Early/Lower Givetian (388.1 - 383.7 Ma)

• Lower Givetian, Upper Newberria Beds (= Upper Rensselandia Sandstone)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified sandstone and lithified limestone

• fine sandstone and sandy shale with limestone interbeds

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: A. May. 2003. Die Fossilführung des Mitteldevons im Raum Attendorn-Olpe (West-Sauerland; Rechtsrheinisches Schiefergebirge) [Middle Devonian fossils of the Attendorn-Olpe area (western Sauerland; Rhenish Massif]. Geologie und Paläontologie in Westfalen 60:47-79 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 60167: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.05.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Trilobita
 Proetida - Proetidae
Dechenella sp. Kayser 1880 trilobite