Gattendorf, Hof, Gattendorfia subinvoluta zone, Bayern (Carboniferous of Germany)

Where: Germany (50.3° N, 12.0° E: paleocoordinates 10.7° S, 14.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

• Lower Tournaisian; Gattendorfia subinvoluta zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: K. Bartzsch and D. Weyer. 1988. Neue Gattenpleura-Funde aus dem Untertournai des Saxothuringikums (Ammonoidea, Unterkarbon) [New records of Gattenpleura from the Lower Tournaisian of the Saxothuringian fold belt (Ammonoidea, Lower Carboniferous)]. Hallesches Jahrbuch für Geowissenschaften 13:37-48 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67214: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.11.2006

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Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Tricorninidae
 Podocopida - Berounellidae
Paraberounella (Paraberounella) saalfeldensis ostracod
subspecies saalfeldensis
 Podocopida - Rectonariidae
Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Gattendorfiidae
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Polygnathidae
"Polygnathus communis" = Neopolygnathus communis
"Polygnathus communis" = Neopolygnathus communis Branson and Mehl 1934 conodont