Hohenlimburg: Late/Upper Givetian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Charactophyllidae
Temnophyllum cf. occidentale Hill and Jell 1970
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Stringophyllidae
? Stringophyllum sp. Wedekind 1922
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
Acanthophyllum aff. vermiculare
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Kyphophyllidae
Tabulophyllum gracile
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Phillipsastreidae
Macgeea multizonata
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Nordrhein-Westfalen
Coordinates: 51.4° North, 7.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:22.1° South, 7.4° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Devonian Epoch:Middle Devonian
Stage:Givetian 10 m.y. bin:Devonian 3
Key time interval:Late/Upper Givetian
Age range of interval:388.10000 - 383.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Lower Baenderschiefer
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Upper Givetian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Secondary lithology: lithified marl
Environment:deep subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:81740
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-07-15 00:47:18 Last modified:2008-07-15 03:47:18
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-08 10:39:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

27600. S. Schröder. 2005. Stratigraphie und Systematik rugoser Korallen aus dem Givetium und Unter-Frasnium des Rheinischen Schiefergebirges (Sauerland/Bergisches Land) [Stratigraphy and systematics of rugose corals from the Givetian and Lower Frasnian of the Rheinisches Schiefergebirge (Sauerland/Bergisches Land)]. Zitteliana B 25:39-116 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]