Kornelimünster (Devonian of Germany)

Also known as Reef 2188

Where: Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (50.7° N, 6.2° E: paleocoordinates 16.7° S, 5.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wocklumeria ammonoid zone, Etroeungt Formation, Late/Upper Famennian (364.7 - 360.7 Ma)

• Strunian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• stromatoporoid biostromes

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: E. Flügel and E. Flügel-Kahler. 1975. Stromatoporen aus dem Unteren Kohlenkalk (Tn 1b, Strunian) von Aachen. Neues Jahrbuch der Geologie und Palaeontologie 149(1):1-38 [W. Kiessling/F. Reichel/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 84307: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.10.2008, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
"Phacops (Phacops) cornelius n. sp." = Omegops cornelius
"Phacops (Phacops) cornelius n. sp." = Omegops cornelius Richter and Richter 1933 trilobite
Bed 50
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Aulophyllidae
 Stauriida - Palaeosmiliidae
 Heterocorallia - Heterophylliidae
Heterophyllia sp. McCoy 1849
Stromatoporoidea
 Clathrodictyida - Atelodictyidae
Atelodictyon ratingense stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Anostylostromatidae
Anostylostroma metzi n. sp. Flügel and Flügel-Kahler 1975 stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Tienodictyidae
Hammatostroma sp. Stearn 1961 stromatoporoid sponge
 Actinostromatida - Actinostromatidae
Actinostroma cf. miraculum stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporellida - Stromatoporellidae
"Pseudostromatoporella moosensis" = Stromatoporella, "Pseudostromatoporella struniana" = Stromatoporella
"Pseudostromatoporella moosensis" = Stromatoporella stromatoporoid sponge
"Pseudostromatoporella struniana" = Stromatoporella stromatoporoid sponge
Foraminifera
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae