45: Stürzenberg, Attendorn, Massenkalk Limestone, Rhenish Massif, Germany (Devonian to of Germany)

Where: Germany (51.1° N, 7.9° E: paleocoordinates 20.7° S, 7.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Massenkalk Formation, Late/Upper Givetian to Late/Upper Givetian (380.2 - 372.2 Ma)

• Upper Givetian?, Massenkalk Limestone, Dorp facies

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• reef core

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 60179: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.05.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
Heliolites porosus Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolites (Crassialveolites) sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Thamnopora bilamellosa tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora expansa tabulate coral
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet. horn coral
 Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
Acanthophyllum sp. Dybowski 1873 horn coral
Dohmophyllum sp. Wedekind 1923 horn coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporellida - Stromatoporellidae
Clathrocoilona (Clathrocoilona) sp. Yavorsky 1931 stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporellida - Trupetostromatidae
Trupetostroma sp. Parks 1936 stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Taleastroma pachytextum stromatoporoid sponge
? Stromatopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 stromatoporoid sponge
 Syringostromatida - Stachyoditidae
Stachyodes (Stachyodes) sp. Bargatzky 1881 stromatoporoid sponge
 Actinostromatida - Actinostromatidae
Actinostroma stellulatum Nicholson 1885 stromatoporoid sponge