Blankenheim Syncline, Lower Junkerberg Fm, sample BLM-17, base of section (Devonian of Germany)

Where: Germany (50.4° N, 6.6° E: paleocoordinates 24.6° S, 8.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Klausbach Member (Junkerberg Formation), Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore; wackestone and grainstone

• mixed sequence of shales, marls, marly limestones and sandy limestones. low energy environment below fair-weather wave base
• Bioclastic wackestone and grainstone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: A. Ernst, P. Königshof, P. D. Taylor and J. Bohatý. 2011. Microhabitat complexity—an example from Middle Devonian bryozoan-rich sediments in the Blankenheim Syncline (northern Eifel, Rheinisches Schiefergebirge). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 91(4):257-284 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 144787: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 17.05.2013

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Echinodermata indet.
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet.
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomata - Batostomellidae
Canutrypa francana
 Trepostomata - Heterotrypidae
Leptotrypa prima
 Trepostomida - Atactotoechidae
Eridotrypella multaeformis
 Trepostomida - Stenoporidae
Trachytoechus globosus, Microcampylus regularis
 Trepostomida - Eridotrypellidae
Multihemiphragma minor
 Cryptostomata -
Intrapora variabilis, Bigeyella prima
 Rhabdomesida - Rhabdomesidae
Acanthoclema distilum
 Rhabdomesida - Rhomboporidae
Isostylus vulgaris
Isostylus vulgaris Ernst et al. 2011
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet.
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod