Beringhausen roadcut, E1: Pendleian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Cravenoceratidae
Cravenoceras leion Bisat 1930
7 specimens
Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Girtyoceratidae
Eumorphoceras dichalocium
4 specimens
Eumorphoceras pseudocoronula Bisat 1950
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Westfalen
Coordinates: 51.4° North, 8.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:2.1° South, 13.1° East
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Mississippian
Stage:Serpukhovian 10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 3
*Period:Early/Lower Carboniferous *Epoch:Early/Lower Serpukhovian
*International age/stage:Pendleian
Key time interval:Pendleian Zone: E1
Age range of interval:330.90000 - 327.40000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Local section:Madfeld road Local bed:36 - 37 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified calcareous "shale"
Lithology description: lithologically the rocks are shale with a rather high calcareous component in the basal parts, sometimes even grading into true limestone.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:5537
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:M. Sommers
Modifier:M. Sommers Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-10-11 14:37:48 Last modified:2000-06-27 17:34:45
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:36
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
331.1% 17860K. Figge. 1968. A Goniatite fauna from the Visean/Namurian boundary. Palaeontology 11:264-274 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/A. Hendy]