Unterthal (Devonian of Germany)

Where: Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (51.0° N, 7.2° E: paleocoordinates 22.4° S, 7.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hornstein Member, Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• lower Hornstein Member between the Lower and Upper Plattenkalk

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified marl

• marl bed intercalated in dark limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: U. Jux. 1992. Schwämme aus dem obersten Mitteldevon der Bergisch Gladbach-Paffrather Mulde (Bergisches Land) [Sponges from the uppermost Middle Devonian of the Bergisch Gladbach-Paffrather Mulde (Bergisches Land)]. Decheniana 145:302-311 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 112146: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.07.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Tornoceratidae
Tornoceras simplex
Tornoceras simplex von Buch 1832 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Sporadoceratidae
Maeneceras terebratum
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Michelinoceras sp.
Michelinoceras sp. Foerste 1932
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
"Philoxene sp." = Straparollus (Philoxene)
"Philoxene sp." = Straparollus (Philoxene) Kayser 1889 snail
 Euomphalina - Omphalocirridae
Omphalocirrus sp.
Omphalocirrus sp. de Ryckholt 1860 snail
 Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae
Murchisonia sp.
Murchisonia sp. d'Archiac and de Verneuil 1841 snail
Bivalvia
 Megalodontida - Mecynodontidae
Mecynodon sp.
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Emanuella inflata
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Schizophoria sp.
Schizophoria sp. King 1850
 Terebratulida - Stringocephalidae
Stringocephalus (Parastringocephalus) dorsalis
Demospongiae
 Lithistida - Astylospongiidae
Globispongia paffrathi n. gen. n. sp.
Globispongia paffrathi n. gen. n. sp. Jux 1992 demosponge