Where: Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (51.3° N, 7.1° E: paleocoordinates 15.9° S, 5.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Famennian (364.7 - 360.7 Ma)
• Strunian (Etroeungt); collection is a series of beds collectively referred to as "71". See Michels (PBDB ref. 10268).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous shale and lime mudstone
Primary reference: M. R. W. Amler, E. Thomas, and K. M. Weber. 1990. Bivalven des hoechsten Oberdevons im Bergischen Land (Strunium; noerdliches Rheinisches Schiefergebirge). Geologica et Palaeontologica 24 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 38266: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 19.04.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
? Palaeoneilo "sp. 1 aff. lirata" Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
? Palaeoneilo "sp. 2 aff emarginata" Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
? Palaeoneilo lirata Phillips 1841 clam | |
Leptodesma (Leptodesma) anatina, Leptodesma (Leptodesma) sp., Leptodesma (Leptodesma) cultellata, Actinodesma (Actinodesma) cf. angulosa
Leptodesma (Leptodesma) sp. Hall 1883 oyster
Leptodesma (Leptodesma) cultellata Whidborne 1897 oyster | |
? Palaeolima sp. Hind 1903 file clam | |
? Pterinopecten cf. polytrichus, ? Pterinopecten aff. eximius, ? Pterinopecten cf. mundus, "Vertumnia sp." = Pterinopecten (Vertumnia)
? Pterinopecten cf. polytrichus scallop
? Pterinopecten aff. eximius scallop
? Pterinopecten cf. mundus Whidborne 1897 scallop
"Vertumnia sp." = Pterinopecten (Vertumnia) scallop | |
Streblopteria piltonensis scallop | |
? Acanthopecten sp. Girty 1903 scallop | |
Pernopecten sp. Winchell 1865 scallop | |
Euchondria beushauseni scallop
Euchondria vera Drevermann 1902 scallop | |
? Newellipecten austeni scallop | |
Paracyclas sp. Hall 1843 clam |