Braunau II (Carboniferous of Germany)

Where: Germany (51.1° N, 9.1° E: paleocoordinates 7.2° S, 8.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Visean (346.7 - 330.9 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unknown lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Visean, on the basis of radiolarian biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within local section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Not stated in text. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of sample preparation techniques.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Not stated in text, but probably Braun. REPOSITORY: REM?

Primary reference: A. Braun and R. Schmidt-Effling. 1993. Biozonation, diagenesis and evolution of radiolarians in the Lower Carboniferous of Germany. Marine Micropaleontology 21:369-383 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 91002: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.08.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for radiolarians. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Polycystina
 Entactinaria - Tetrentactiniidae
 Entactinaria - Palaeolithocycliidae
"Eostylodictya rota" = Palaeolithocyclia
"Eostylodictya rota" = Palaeolithocyclia
 Entactinaria - Entactiniidae
? Cubaxonium octaedrospongiosum, "Entactinia variospina" = Stigmosphaerostylus, "Astroentactinia ? mirousi" = Stigmosphaerostylus, "Astroentactinia radiata" = Stigmosphaerostylus, "Meschedea hirsata" = Pluristratoentactinia, "Meschedea pyramispinosa" = Pluristratoentactinia
"Entactinia variospina" = Stigmosphaerostylus
"Astroentactinia ? mirousi" = Stigmosphaerostylus
"Astroentactinia radiata" = Stigmosphaerostylus
"Meschedea hirsata" = Pluristratoentactinia
"Meschedea pyramispinosa" = Pluristratoentactinia
 Entactinaria - Pylentonemidae
? Polyentactinia sp. Foreman 1963
Polyentactinia aranea Gourmelon 1986
 Albaillellaria - Albaillellidae
 Albaillellaria - Ceratoikiscidae
 Nassellaria - Archocyrtiidae
 Latentifistularia - Latentifistulidae
Latentifistula "sp. 1" Nazarov and Ormiston 1983
Latentifistula sp. Nazarov and Ormiston 1983