Rügen Island, Borehole Wiek 3, unit 4, NE Germany (Carboniferous of Germany)

Where: Germany (54.6° N, 13.3° E: paleocoordinates 6.9° S, 7.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ivorian (353.8 - 346.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: D. Weyer. 1993. Korallen aus dem Obertournai und Untervisé der Inseln Hiddensee und Rügen [Upper Tournaisian and Lower Visean corals from Hiddensee and Rügen islands]. Abhandlungen und Berichte für Naturkunde 16:31-69 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64671: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.09.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Pericyclidae
"Pericyclus" sp. Mojsisovics 1882 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Prodromitidae
? Acrocanites sp. Schindewolf 1922 ammonite
Trilobita
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
"Paladin (Kaskia) arduennensis" = Australokaskia arduennensis
"Paladin (Kaskia) arduennensis" = Australokaskia arduennensis Hahn and Hahn 1968 trilobite
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Palaeacidae
Palaeacis sp. Haime 1857 tabulate coral