Where: Germany (50.3° N, 12.0° E: paleocoordinates 10.7° S, 14.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)
• Lower Tournaisian; Gattendorfia subinvoluta zone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: K. Bartzsch and D. Weyer. 1988. Neue Gattenpleura-Funde aus dem Untertournai des Saxothuringikums (Ammonoidea, Unterkarbon) [New records of Gattenpleura from the Lower Tournaisian of the Saxothuringian fold belt (Ammonoidea, Lower Carboniferous)]. Hallesches Jahrbuch für Geowissenschaften 13:37-48 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 67214: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.11.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Conodonta | |
"Polygnathus communis" = Neopolygnathus communis
"Polygnathus communis" = Neopolygnathus communis Branson and Mehl 1934 conodont | |
Ostracoda | |
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Rectonaria muelleri ostracod
Rectonaria varica ostracod | |
Tricornina (Tricornina) communis ostracod | |
Cephalopoda | |
Gattenpleura pfeifferi ammonite |