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
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 | |
Heliolites porosus Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral | |
Alveolites (Crassialveolites) sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral | |
Thamnopora bilamellosa tabulate coral | |
Syringopora expansa tabulate coral | |
Rugosa indet. horn coral | |
Acanthophyllum vermiculare horn coral
Acanthophyllum sp. Dybowski 1873 horn coral
Dohmophyllum sp. Wedekind 1923 horn coral | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Clathrocoilona (Clathrocoilona) sp. Yavorsky 1931 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Trupetostroma sp. Parks 1936 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Taleastroma pachytextum stromatoporoid sponge
? Stromatopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Stachyodes (Stachyodes) sp. Bargatzky 1881 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Actinostroma stellulatum Nicholson 1885 stromatoporoid sponge |