Amönau: Tournaisian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Popofskyellidae
Popofskyellum cf. pulchrum Deflandre 1964
Protozoa - Latentifistularia - Tetratormentidae
Tetragregnon cf. sycamorensis Ormiston and Lane 1976
Protozoa - Albaillellaria - Ceratoikiscidae
Ceratoikiscum rotundatum
Ceratoikiscum berggreni Gourmelon 1987
Ceratoikiscum avimexpectans Deflandre 1953
Protozoa - Albaillellaria - Albaillellidae
Albaillella deflanderi
Albaillella undulata Deflandre 1952
Protozoa - Entactinaria - Entactiniidae
Entactinia tortispina (Ormiston and Lane 1976)
Entactinia aff. tortispina (Ormiston and Lane 1976)
Astroentactinia radiata Aitchison 1993
Astroentactinia biaciculata Nazarov 1975
Entactinosphaera altasulcata Won 1983
Protozoa - Entactinaria
? Helioentactinia polyacanthina
nomen dubium belonging to Entactinaria
Protozoa - Entactinaria - Palaeoscenidiidae
Palaeoscenidium cladophorum Deflandre 1953
Protozoa - Entactinaria - Pylentonemidae
Pylentonema antiqua Deflandre 1963
Polyentactinia aranea Gourmelon 1986
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany
Coordinates: 50.9° North, 8.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:12.6° South, 6.7° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Mississippian
Stage:Tournaisian 10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 1
Key time interval:Tournaisian
Age range of interval:358.90000 - 346.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unknown lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Tournaisian, on the basis of radiolarian biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within local section.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified not reported
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Not stated in text. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of sample preparation techniques.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Not stated in text, but probably Braun. REPOSITORY: REM?
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for radiolarians. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:91000
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:micropaleontology
Created:2009-08-28 16:03:23 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2009-08-28 16:03:23
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

30616. A. Braun and R. Schmidt-Effling. 1993. Biozonation, diagenesis and evolution of radiolarians in the Lower Carboniferous of Germany. Marine Micropaleontology 21:369-383 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]