Kahnweiher, Refrath (Devonian of Germany)

Also known as Reef 3830

Where: Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (51.0° N, 7.1° E: paleocoordinates 21.3° S, 6.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Refrath Formation, Middle Frasnian (382.4 - 379.5 Ma)

• lower part of the Middle Frasnian (Punctata zone, MN zones 5 and 6), Steinbreche or Saalermühl Member of the Refrath Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone and lithified marl

• very fossiliferous shallow-water deposit with biostromal coral or stromatoporoid units alternating or laterally grading into marly, brachiopod-rich facies of sheltered (lagoonal) settings

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: X. Ma, V. Ebbighausen, and R. T. Becker. 2008. Desquamatia and related atrypid brachiopods from the Frasnian (Upper Devonian) of Bergisches Land, Germany. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 45:121-134 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90441: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.07.2009, edited by Mihaela Krause

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
Cyrtina bouchardi
Cyrtina bouchardi Brice 1988
 Spiriferida - Cyrtospiriferidae
Cyrtospirifer cuspidatus
Cyrtospirifer cuspidatus de Archiac and de Verneuil 1842
 Spiriferida - Verneuiliidae
Verneuilia cheiropteryx
Verneuilia cheiropteryx de Archiac and de Verneuil 1842
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Pseudoatrypa schroeteri, Desquamatia (Seratrypa) pectinata, Desquamatia (Seratrypa) refrathensis n. sp.
Desquamatia (Seratrypa) refrathensis n. sp. Ma et al. 2008