3: Österau, Hobräcke beds, Rhenish Massif, Germany: Eifelian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821
Anthozoa - Favositida - Coenitidae
Platyaxum sp. Davis 1887
Anthozoa - Favositida - Favositidae
Anthozoa - Favositida - Pachyporidae
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Metriophyllidae
Metriophyllum sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany
Coordinates: 51.2° North, 7.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:13.2° South, 18.1° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Devonian Epoch: Middle Devonian
Stage: Eifelian 10 m.y. bin: Devonian 3
Key time interval: Eifelian
Age range of interval: 393.47 - 387.95 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Hobräcke
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Lower Eifelian to lower Middle Eifelian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "reef rocks"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:60130
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-05-03 02:29:50 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2006-05-03 02:29:50
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
17286. A. May. 2003. Die Fossilführung des Mitteldevons im Raum Attendorn-Olpe (West-Sauerland; Rechtsrheinisches Schiefergebirge) [Middle Devonian fossils of the Attendorn-Olpe area (western Sauerland; Rhenish Massif]. Geologie und Paläontologie in Westfalen 60:47-79 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]