Where: Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (51.0° N, 7.2° E: paleocoordinates 22.4° S, 7.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Hornstein Member, Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)
• lower Hornstein Member between the Lower and Upper Plattenkalk
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified marl
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: U. Jux. 1992. Schwämme aus dem obersten Mitteldevon der Bergisch Gladbach-Paffrather Mulde (Bergisches Land) [Sponges from the uppermost Middle Devonian of the Bergisch Gladbach-Paffrather Mulde (Bergisches Land)]. Decheniana 145:302-311 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 112146: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.07.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Schizophoria sp. King 1850 | |
Bivalvia | |
Mecynodon sp. clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Murchisonia sp. d'Archiac and de Verneuil 1841 snail | |
Omphalocirrus sp. de Ryckholt 1860 snail | |
"Philoxene sp." = Straparollus (Philoxene)
"Philoxene sp." = Straparollus (Philoxene) Kayser 1889 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
Tornoceras simplex von Buch 1832 ammonite | |
Maeneceras terebratum ammonite | |
Michelinoceras sp. Foerste 1932 | |
Demospongiae | |
Globispongia paffrathi n. gen. n. sp.
Globispongia paffrathi n. gen. n. sp. Jux 1992 demosponge |