Lingenbach Quarry, Bundenbach area (Devonian of Germany)

Where: Germany (49.9° N, 7.3° E: paleocoordinates 41.0° S, 43.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hunsrueck Slate Formation, Early/Lower Emsian (409.1 - 402.5 Ma)

• Lower Emsian, Ulmen substage

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone

• harder, monotonous sandstone ("Krappstein") in contrast to the soft mudstones and siltstones ("Plattenstein") from the conservation lagerstätte of Bundenbach

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. H. Südkamp. 2007. An atypical fauna in the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate of Germany. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 81(2):181-204 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 74301: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.08.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Crinoidea
 Diplobathrida - Rhodocrinitidae
Acanthocrinus heroldi, Acanthocrinus lingenbachensis
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
Chotecops ferdinandi
Cephalopoda
 Nautiloidea -
Nautiloidea indet.
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid
Bivalvia
 Cyrtodontida - Praecardiidae
Praecardium sp.
Praecardium sp. Barrande 1881 clam
 Cyrtodontida - Antipleuridae
Panenka grebei
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella sp.
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Hysterolitidae
Brachyspirifer explanatus
 Terebratulida -
Terebratulida indet.
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Spirorbis sp.
Spirorbis sp. Daudin 1800
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Zaphrentidae
""Zaphrentis" sp." = Zaphrenthis
""Zaphrentis" sp." = Zaphrenthis Rafinesque and Clifford 1820 horn coral
 Favositida - Micheliniidae
Pleurodictyum hunsrueckianum
 Ichnofossils -
Chondrites palaeozoicus